Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.
This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.
Theresa May says the referendum - and existing ministerial powers - mean MPs do not need to vote, but campaigners called this unconstitutional.
The government is appealing, with a further hearing expected next month.
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A statement is to be made to MPs on Monday but the prime minister's official spokesman said the government had "no intention of letting" the judgement "derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan".
Plebiscites only count when plebes vote the way they're told.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday November 05 2016, @03:29AM
Try to keep up. People born in the UK or to a parent with UK citizenship are UK citizens and have been since 1949. People born in a Commonwealth country such as Canada or Australia were citizens of their country and British subjects up till 1982 (and still can move to the UK and have the same rights as a UK citizen). Currently the only British subjects are a few Irish who don't have Irish citizenship and a few people born in former colonies (mostly India and Pakistan) who have no citizenship.
Even when subjects did exist, they were still freer then American citizens who have to do all kinds of BS as subjects of the American system. Things like swearing allegiance to a piece of cloth or piece of paper and then not following the rules laid out on that piece of paper.