Another Nail in Boris Johnson’s Brexit Coffin
The country’s effort to leave the European Union has trapped its politicians in a web of obligations.
The judgment was soberly delivered, but its contents were brutal. Wearing a black dress with a large spider brooch, the president of Britain’s Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament this month was “unlawful, void, and of no effect.” All 11 judges agreed. There is no possibility of appeal.
Hale and her colleagues ruled that Johnson’s actions “had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions.” In other words, by reducing the number of days Parliament could sit before October 31—the date
