Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule - BBC News

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, saying it was to allow a Queen's Speech to outline his new policies.

But the UK's highest court said it was wrong to stop Parliament carrying out its duties.

The court's president, Lady Hale, said: "The effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme."

[LordLoocker]

Supreme Court: *makes important decision*
The internet: "SPIDER BROOCH!"

[zainads]

History essays in the future:
Discuss Brexit. (100 marks)

[StephenFiorentini]

Boris can't be back for Prime Ministers questions, he travelled with Thomas Cook.

[michaelarroyo]

Wow! TLDR sure pick a hell of a day to go on vacation

[peope]

Unanimous decision of all eleven justices. Wow.

[zaqvoir]

Lady Hale made an interesting choice of brooch to wear on this occasion

[XSpImmaLion]

Bercow is gonna ODDAAA ODDDAAA more in his last few weeks than he did in his entire career...

[happyskippy]

In usa you have spiderman, in UK you have spiderlady.

[vinm]

Very well written.
Concise, simple language : a master-class in writing.
(I wonder who penned it)

[chiderauduma]

Constitutional law students 😭 your coursework is on prerogative powers and rule of law

[cammy]

This is like the greatest bed time story of all time.

[houseof]

I could see teachers using this as an A* example of an essay on our government.

[jackofclubz]

Can we get her on the US Supreme court?

[callum]

I tried lemon sorbet today and it was quite nice

[DylanFowler]

Is it true BJ has a phobia about Spiders? cos after this ruling he will.

[mohdmohtashim]

did the supreme court just destroy boris johnson's career????

[J.B]

That's what you call a Supreme Smackdown. That's what an independent judiciary is supposed to do when the executive has violated the law.

[stefangranderson]

She reminds me of professor Mcgonagul from harry potter

[alecompa]

Brexit is better than Netflix series! 🍿🥤

[andrewjones-productions]

It is good to see that the Supreme Court is not in the pocket of the government and is indeed a separate and independent pillar of State. As it should be.

To my mind, the court's ruling is quite simply translated as Boris did an ad hoc level of preparation and failed to justify his intentions fully for prorogation. Furthermore, he attempted to use the monarch in political manoeuvrings that were neither appropriate or constitutional. I suppose that this what we should expect from someone who simply wanted to be Prime Minister and not someone who wanted to do his best for the country. A lesson to us is that the most reluctant of MPs is probably the best person for the job.