I agree that clarity is usually an admirable virtue, but if the thing the Government are trying to describe is not very clear in itself—perhaps because it is very complicated and impossible to make clear, or perhaps because it is deliberately obfuscating—what happens then? We cannot have a dishonest account of what a complex clause is doing.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 20 December 2017.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.
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