Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:28 pm on 11 October 2017.
Does the Counsel General recognise that that Supreme Court judgment cut across the previous position, as put forward by the Welsh Government and, indeed, the First Minister? I recall him in this Chamber telling us of the importance to vote for the LCM on the Wales Bill, because it would put Sewel into statute and, as in Scotland, we would benefit from having that statutory underpinning of the Sewel convention. Isn’t the reality that the Supreme Court showed that legal position to be entirely misconceived and that the convention has no more weight now that it’s in statue than it did before?