EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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Dammit in reply to @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?

Because the advice will contain a section called "how we could break the terms of the withdrawal agreement" or something similar - and I imagine the government doesn't want the routes that they have mapped out for screwing the EU made public.

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Scrabble in reply to @Dammit

Yeah, Dominic Grieve, who knows about this kind of thing, was on C4 news last night saying requiring the government to publish advice from their attorney is madness.

It could have detail about which member states may have issues with different areas of the deal, and recommend strategies for managing this going forward. Not things you want either in the open for the press, or for those on the other side of the negotiating table.

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villa-ru in reply to @Scrabble

Then maybe the conservatives should have voted against the motion rather than waving it through.
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Oliver Schick in reply to @Scrabble

Yeah, Dominic Grieve, who knows about this kind of thing, was on C4 news last night saying requiring the government to publish advice from their attorney is madness.

Hehe, coming from ultra-Government loyalist Dominic Grieve I can only assume that his intervention means publishing this advice is exactly the right course of action. :)

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