Braverman overlooks precedent

Attorney’s predecessor published his legal advice less than four years ago

The attorney general Suella Braverman QC MP has confirmed that she will not be publishing legal advice she gave the government that its proposals to legislate on the Northern Ireland protocol were lawful.

This is some of what she told she told Sophy Ridge on Sky News yesterday:

We’re not going to publish the legal advice. It’s incredibly rare for the gove…