GUERNSEY will weaken its position with the UK when its signs off a new framework agreement, it has been confirmed.

While Lyndon Trott has his pen poised over the dotted line, Nick Mann looks at the fine print of a constitutional agreement between Guernsey and the UK and asks, will we live to regret it?

GUERNSEY’S chief minister is poised to sign an understanding with the UK based on its centuries-old constitutional relationship with the Crown – yet the document is either a material weakening of the island’s autonomy or an expensive and pointless PR exercise.

CHIEF MINISTER Lyndon Trott does not believe there is the desire among islanders to explore the possibility of gaining independence from the UK.

BAILIFF Geoffrey Rowland last night warned of the pitfalls of a written constitution.