Joshua Parfitt
THE UK’s Supreme Court has ruled Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis was ‘unlawful’.
The court’s president, Lady Hale, said: “The effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.”
She said the unanimous decision of the 11 justices was that Parliament had not been prorogued – the decision was null and of no effect – and it was for the Speakers of the Commons and Lords to decide what to do next.
