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There is a belief that Cox said something along the lines that the backstop is a bad idea and will tie the UK to the EU in perpetuity as the backstop will be forever ongoing.
marxist_vulcan-
Is this the legal advice that was leaked?
https://twitter.com/BrexitCentral/status/1069473309526581248?s=19
That contains the line
the WA [Withdrawal Agreement] could have effect for approximately 150 years from the end of the TIP [Transition Implementation Period]
Though that line relates to the odd case of someone affected by the WA having a child late in life, who then lives for a long time.
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Yes, I thought it would be about the backstop, but it remain to be seen how politically damaging that will be. In this atmosphere of constant scandals, I wonder if it's going to be no more than another distracting skirmish.
Also, Geoffrey Cox won't have written that advice, but presumably signed it off to be submitted.
christianSpaceman
Oliver Schick
I don't really understand why the full legal advice is considered so important, but I suspect the fact that the Government is trying to withhold it suggests that there may be something there, although I'd be surprised if there were some kind of smoking gun. Or could it be a false trail to distract from something else?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/03/not-a-document-to-sink-the-deal-what-the-brexit-legal-advice-says
It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/03/cabinet-minister-suspension-brexit-legal-advice-deal
Obviously, May has played the same tactics throughout this process from the start, trying to uninvolve Parliament and has blocked even simple things so that people had their work cut out getting past all those obstacles she put in place. It's mean-minded and ultimately probably effective in evading scrutiny to some extent.