If the same interactions had happened.... We don't know if anybody in the Prime Minister's Office at that time understood the Shawcross doctrine and if they really understood that there should be a difference in the way they treated the Attorney General versus another cabinet minister. If this had been, for example, the Minister of Health and it had been a decision related to health care, would you have treated it in the same way? Would there have been that impropriety?
On March 21st, 2024. See this statement in context.