Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court could not have been clearer: Boris Johnson lied about his reasons for proroguing parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. The implication is that he misled the public, the courts, MPs, and the Queen when he said he wanted to shut parliament down for five weeks to prepare for a new Queen’s Speech.
In a unanimous verdict, the highest court in the land voiced what the proverbial dog in the street knew. The Prime Minister suspended parliament in a blatant attempt to silence an institution in which he had lost six Brexit-related votes in six days. He shut it down to prevent MPs from scrutinising his government’s pursuit of a catastrophic no-deal exit from the European Union on 31 October.
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