I don't understand people who want to defend Apple in this case. UK is a functioning democracy, and why would you want to put a (foreign) company above that? If you want change, you know the route ...
Well it is because the judiciary smacked the secrecy side of it down pretty hard to make sure that it was done in public. That's a pretty strong indicator of a functioning democracy.
We just replaced the government responsible for the first issue with a moderately competent one. I expect there to be some progress now. In fact there has been. And it turned out to be mostly bollocks.