Legal Advice: Prorogation

Stuart C McDonald Excerpts
Wednesday 25th September 2019

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stuart C McDonald Portrait Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) (SNP)
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Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that any reasonable Attorney General, acting with due care, would query, challenge and perhaps even laugh at any suggestion that five weeks of Prorogation was necessary in order to prepare for a Queen’s Speech?

Geoffrey Cox Portrait The Attorney General
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I think I understood the hon. Gentleman’s question, but I do not agree with its premise.