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"As a public official, I take no position on Brexit per se," he will say.

Remembrance events had been flagged as an example of when she might make a public appearance - and will be the first time Catherine has carried out two consecutive days of public official engagements since the start of the year.

More fundamentally, Madrid said, “There’s something extremely irresponsible as a citizen to dismiss what a public official is saying by divining your own intent as to what that means or does not mean. All we can do is take people at their word. That’s what this whole system is based off of.”

A corruption case involving a public official is rare in Singapore, a financial hub that prides itself with its squeaky clean image, and Iswaran's case has gripped the nation.

Clark “directed and authorized a scheme of collusion and deceit that was a blatant betrayal of his duties as an attorney and public official,” George Cardona, the Bar’s chief trial counsel, said in a statement.