Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 2.04pm GMT Lidington says he has found only one precedent for the government publishing legal advice in full in recent years. That was when the Blair government published its Iraq legal advice. But that was two years after it was written, and only after extracts had been selectively leaked to the media, he says. 1.59pm GMT Neil O’Brien, a Conservative, asks for an assurance that the government opposes the principle of what is in the Labour motion – that the government should have to publish the advice he gets. He says, as a special adviser, he worked with civil servants, and they would oppose this.Lidington agrees. He says it has been a long-standing principle that law officers’ advice should remain confidential. Continue reading…
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