House of Lords welcomes new Advocate General

Scotland's new Advocate General has been inducted into the House of Lords.

Keith Stewart QC was introduced into the House yesterday, taking the title Lord Stewart of Dirleton, the East Lothian village where he grew up.

His predecessor Lord Keen of Elie QC resigned over the Government's UK Internal Market Bill, stating that he found himself unable to reconcile his obligations as a law office with the intentions of the bill, which the Government has conceded would break international law in conflicting with the EU Withdrawal Agreement it signed only a year ago. 

Yesterday the peers voted by 433 votes to 165 to remove those provisions from the bill, but the Prime Minister has insisted that the Government will move to reinstate them when the bill returns to the Commons.