Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

How the whips made today’s contempt debate far worse

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Could the government have avoided this afternoon’s contempt motion? MPs have voted in favour of holding ministers in contempt of parliament for refusing to publish the Brexit legal advice, and the simple argument is that the only way to avoid this whole debacle would have been to publish the advice.

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