We won’t publish legal advice around scrapping Northern Ireland protocol, says Attorney General

We won’t publish legal advice around scrapping Northern Ireland protocol, says Attorney General

The government will not publish the legal advice around scrapping the Northern Ireland protocol , the Attorney General Suella Braverman has said. Speaking on ‘The Take with Sophy Ridge’ on Sky News, Ms Braverman said the government will explain the legal basis so people can understand the decision taken, but that it won't publish full legal advice as this is "incredibly rare". "We are not going to publish the legal advice. It is incredibly rare for the government to publish its legal advice," she said. "I think what the government is doing is it will be setting out a bit more detail about the legal basis so that people have a bit more of an understanding about why we think the action taken is lawful." The UK has threatened to tear up the Northern Ireland protocol and suspend border checks in the Irish Sea as Unionists argue that it has driven a wedge between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. In a recent stand-off with the EU, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss accused the bloc of refusing to expand her counterpart Maros Sefcovic’s mandate to extend to concerns voiced by political parties, such as the DUP . Ms Truss