Ex-Deputy PM Lord Prescott made some interesting comments.
...when confronted by the fact that Lord Goldsmith's definition of "A reasonable case" does not mean that "if the matter ever came before a court I would be confident that the court would agree with this view."... Lord Prescott replied simply "Cor Blimey" and noted that during the process....
And when asked if he would have liked to have known this at the time of making the decision to go to war seemed to be of the view that really all he required from Lord Goldsmith was a binary Yes or No answer. This seems to have been the general policy of most of the cabinet: see no evil, hear no evil and ideally brief no evil. Of course its worth noting that Lord Goldsmith was Attorney General for England and Wales - aren't there ones for Scotland and Northern Ireland too... so much for devolution.
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