Lord Lamont of Lerwick
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Leaving the European Union
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
The EU and, indeed, the Attorney-General have said that these letters do have legal force.
Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con)
My Lords, on that point, is it not clear that the Attorney-General’s letter is a political letter? It is about the political risk—it says that the balance of political risk is in this way. But, on the legality of the backstop, the Leader did not refer to the fact that the Attorney-General wrote in his letter that,
“they do not alter the fundamental meanings of its provisions as I advised them to be on 13 November 2018”.
In other words, what has been obtained has no legal effect.