Member

The reason we were given for this U-turn was legal advice relating to an ongoing High Court judgment. The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee expressed its concerns that this was not set out in the accompanying Explanatory Memorandum when the revocation order was laid. The committee said it did not “understand the omission”, and neither do I. If legal advice was the decisive factor, the Government should have been open about that from the very beginning. Instead, there has been a lack of candour about the process and the decisions made throughout this ordeal.