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Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Mr Johnson suspended - or prorogued - Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, but judges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to Brexit on 31 October.
Supreme Court president Lady Hale said "the effect on the fundamentals of democracy was extreme."
[...]Delivering its conclusions, the Supreme Court's president, Lady Hale, said: "The decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification."
Lady Hale said the unanimous decision of the 11 justices meant Parliament had effectively not been prorogued - the decision was null and of no effect.
She added that it was important to emphasise the case was "not about when and on what terms" the UK left the EU, but about the decision to suspend Parliament.
Speaker of the Commons John Bercow said MPs needed to return "in light of the explicit judgement", and he had "instructed the House of Commons authorities to prepare... for the resumption of business" from 11:30 BST on Wednesday.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @04:10PM (9 children)
Love the way it was referred to as "non-binding" only after Leave won. If this one was non-binding then 1974 wasn't, so why did government enact the referendum on joining the EEC in 1975?
True and most at the last election said they would work towards leaving the EU, not delay or undermine the Government's negotiating position.
The Conservative party won the last election based almost entirely on Theresa May's "No-deal is better than a bad-deal" rhetoric. This also featured on page 36 of the otherwise atrocious 2017 Conservative Party Election Manifesto. It is the mandate of the current Government, they won an election on it and the Benn bill is therefore a democratic discgrace!
(Score: 5, Informative) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 25 2019, @04:39PM (8 children)
One problem with that: they didn't win the last election. They had a (slim) majority before the election and then lost it afterwards. They were the largest minority and formed a government only because of a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP, after agreeing to find £1bn extra for the Northern Ireland budget. They no longer have even that: between the MPs that have quit their party and the MPs that they've kicked out, they don't have a majority even with the DUP.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @04:44PM (7 children)
Unless opposition parties vote for election motions or bring a vote of no confidence, the Government can claim the confidence of the house. Therein lies the problem with your problem and with the stupid Supreme Court ruling.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 25 2019, @10:28PM (6 children)
The opposition don't have to do any of those things, all they need to do is to continue to give the PM the rope he needs to hang himself.
And they know it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @11:12PM (5 children)
Via Britain Elects [twitter.com]
(Score: 1, Redundant) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 25 2019, @11:22PM (2 children)
What do any of those numbers have to do with anything?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @11:30PM (1 child)
The public are not fooled by Parliamentary games and neither will they be convinced by this Supreme Court "ruling" when constitutional experts are done rubbishing it.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday September 26 2019, @02:32AM
That is very funny.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 26 2019, @03:16AM
Are any of these polls binding?
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday September 26 2019, @01:36PM
This and other polls have been summarised in a timeline at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#National_poll_results [wikipedia.org]