Succession and marriage laws will be left unchanged by Bill
The Attorney-General’s office has ruled out any legislation that would give equal rights of succession to the throne to daughters of a monarch. Nor will it repeal the law that bans the heir to the throne from marrying a Roman Catholic.
The denial yesterday, by a spokesman for Baroness Scotland of Asthal, QC, came after the Attorney-General’s fellow minister, Vera Baird, QC, who is the Solicitor-General, was quoted seemingly giving support to such measures.