Withdrawal Agreement: Attorney General’s legal opinion on the Joint Instrument and Unilateral Declaration Debate
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(5 years, 8 months ago)
Lords ChamberJust to deal with “egregious” first, surely the word derives from the Latin “e grege”—
I will welcome the noble Lord’s comments. His reference to Latin will no doubt enhance this debate. However, for the moment, I entirely concur with the observations of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern. It would be foolish in the extreme to make an important—indeed, significant—political decision on the basis of a risk that can genuinely be regarded as negligible.