Something ugly has come out of the Supreme Court’s decision to change the law and our constitution yesterday. Instead of basking magnanimously in the fact that they won, there have been wholly unwarranted calls from Remainers for ‘heads on plates’. The cry has gone out for the Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, to publish his legal advice and to resign. The rather bizarre premise is presumably that in giving advice to the government that the prorogation was lawful, he somehow did something wrong. Let me be unequivocal – he did not, and the calls for his resignation are both vindictive and inappropriate.
How can I be so sure? Well, what the bloodthirsty are forgetting is that the High Court on 11 September thought the prorogation of parliament was legal. Up until yesterday, that was the law. Any Attorney General who gave advice with which the High Court agreed, is justified and immune from criticism.
But in this instance we can go further to vindicate this particular Attorney General.
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