Blair's laws years are over
Top law officers to be stripped of policy making roles, says Dominic Grieve
'We are law officers delivering legal advice,' says attorney general
The attorney general has delivered a stinging attack on the former government, saying it "lured" law officers into a policy-making role.
In his first public statement as the government's chief legal adviser, Dominic Grieve said he and Edward Garnier, the solicitor general, would revert to a "traditional role", stripping their offices of initiatives on equality and fraud.
"From day one we have put the law officers back into the original traditional role," said Grieve.
"They were lured into policy making. The last government transformed the office into something it was not intended to be. We are law officers delivering legal advice. That doesn't fit in with trying to be a policy lead. It is perfectly possible for the role [of attorney general and solicitor general] to be done in an old-fashioned way."
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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