Will the next attorney general come from the bar?

Or is there anyone in the Commons who's up to the challenge?

I heard a rumour the other day that a leading commercial silk was turning down new instructions because he was being lined up for appointment as attorney general whenever Suella Braverman steps down.

I do hope it’s true — but the cynic in me doubts it. In my latest column for The Critic, now published online, I argue that frank advice of the sort that ca…