Member

By failing to mention the legal advice in the Explanatory Memorandum, the Government have not just been opaque; they have been negligent in their duty to this Parliament. How can we trust the quality of future explanatory memorandums when a document that omits the most basic and crucial fact of this SI’s existence is then signed off by a Minister? From these Benches, the Liberal Democrats have always maintained that elections should proceed unless there is a catastrophic reason otherwise. This SI was a confusion of error, which the regret Motion points out.