NSTworld: The speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, reconvened parliament at 11:30 am (1030 GMT) on Wednesday, with the upper House of Lords to return later in the day.
The judgement has hit Johnson’s authority, prompting calls for his resignation and cast further doubt on his promise to pull Britain out of the EU on October 31, come what may.
The speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, reconvened parliament at 11:30 am on Wednesday, with the upper House of Lords to return later in the day. Bercow said there would be no Prime Minister’s Questions – a weekly session held on Wednesdays – but there would be “full scope for urgent questions, for ministerial statements, and for applications for emergency debates.”
The ruling throws Johnson’s Brexit planning into disarray, coming after a series of defeats in parliament that have curbed his plans to push ahead with Brexit even if there is no divorce deal with Brussels.The prime minister is likely to also renew his call for an early election to end the stand-off with parliament, having said in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that it was “the obvious thing to do.
The 11 Supreme Court judges ruled on Tuesday that the parliamentary suspension, which came into effect this month, was “unlawful, void and of no effect.”
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