The U.K.’s Supreme Court has upended Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy by ruling his decision to suspend Parliament was illegal.
The U.K.’s highest court unanimously ruling means that the prime minister’s decision to suspend Parliament was quashed in a major blow to the prime minister.
The 11 judges sitting in the case found that Parliament was never suspended and the next steps are in the hands of the Speaker of the House of Commons and House of Lords. Johnson had hoped to use the five week shutdown to negotiate a new trade deal with the European Union but now faces being outmanoeuvred and further constrained by his opposing lawmakers.: “The Court can certainly declare that the advise was unlawful. The Inner House went further and declared that any prorogation resulting from it was null and of no effect," said Baroness Hale, the current president of the Supreme Court, in the ruling.
Supporters of the prime minister argue that the suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament was intended to lay the ground for the annual Queen’s speech, where the government announces its legislative plans, and the five week shutdown was not historically unusual. Johnson announced the shutdown after rebel lawmakers from his own Conservative Party, and opposition politicians rushed through a law to block him from taking the U.K. out of the European Union without a trade deal.
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