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Adam Payne
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Lady Hale says parliament was suspended in "quite exceptional circumstances" and that its effects on parliamentary democracy were "extreme"...
Lady Hale: "The prime minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void, and of no effect." Extraordinary.
The SNP's Joanna Cherry calls on Boris Johnson to "have the guts for once to the decent thing and resign"
A former Tory minister asks: "How can Cox as Attorney General and Rees Mogg as Lord President survive?"

They say someone needs to go "and quickly"
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Adam Payne
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Big update: Asked about the PM’s response to Damian Green, his spox says there’ll be no “*new* physical infrastructure” under Johnson’s plan, which is a v important commitment. HMG’s position is that physical customs checks will take place in infrastructure that already exists.
New: A spox for the Manufacturing Northern Ireland tells me the idea that NI would not need any new infrastructure is "nonsense" and "not feasible or possible"

They say NI's existing customs infrastructure is at ports and many SMEs would have to drive miles to get clearance
Story: Northern Irish business group baffled by the PM's "nonsense" claim that customs checks won't require new infrastructure

"A food and drink company in Dungannon would have to drive 50 miles to Belfast" businessinsider.com/northern-irish…
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Adam Payne
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Johnson says that under his plan, physical customs checks in Northern Ireland would not take place “at or near” the border but at “trader premises” and “other points in the supply chain”
I can’t see any DUP MPs in the House of Commons for the PM’s statement
Corbyn points out that HMG had previously committed to no physical checks whatsoever. “I’m sorry, I’m only quoting what the government said.”
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Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Here's the key extract from Johnson's letter to Juncker setting out his proposal

Pretty much what @pmdfoster reported
@pmdfoster Before the end of the transition period (December 2010) and once every 4 years, Northern Ireland's democratic institutions would vote whether to maintain or ditch its regulatory alignment with the EU (the potential DUP veto)
@pmdfoster "This means that the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland will be a customs border. That does not mean that customs checks and controls need to take place at, or even near, that border."
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Andrew Chapman
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Oxford Law Professor John Finnis on the Supreme Court Judgement, not mincing his words:

'wholly unjustified by law... no plausible reason for transferring the conventions about prorogation into the domain of justiciable law... a historic mistake..'

policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Finnis: Prorogation is 'self-evidently' a proceeding in Parliament. By nullifying it, the Supreme Court acted against the Bill of Rights 1689, which provides that such proceedings ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court:
The potential violation of the Bill of Rights did not arise directly, as I understand it, in connection with the first remedy that Gina Miller herself was pursuing, namely a declaration that the Prime Minister's advice was unlawful:

supremecourt.uk/docs/written-c…

since clearly the
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
Here we go #prorogation

Can’t make out the sound though. Streaming problems. #SupremeCourt
Ok sound back on. Lady Hale now setting out the facts relating to the prorogation itself
Unanimous judgment of all 11 justices.

Court holds this IS Justiciable.

Repeat. It IS justiciable. Unanimously.
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Dominic Casciani
@BBCDomC
HERE WE GO...
Lady Hale and justices in court. Lady Hale: It is important once again to emphasise that these cases are not about Brexit. "They are only about whether the advice given by the PM to the Queen that Parliament should be prorogued was lawful."
Lady Hale: This may be a one-off case.
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Adam Wagner
@AdamWagner1
I am aiming to live tweet the Supreme Court prorogation judgment from 10:30. This will be tweet 1 (thread)
Here is my introduction to the case and why I think it’s so important newstatesman.com/politics/brexi…
At 10:30 you can watch the 'hand down' (giving) of a short summary of the judgment here supremecourt.uk/live/court-01.…

You can read the written submissions (statements) of the various parties to the case here supremecourt.uk/brexit/written…

Below is the Court's summary of the key issues
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Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall
SUPREME COURT DAY 3

I get the sense that their lordships are getting pretty unhappy that the last couple of interventions have focussed too much about the high politics, not enough about the law,
Having received a lengthy peroration about Brexit and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Lady Hale pointedly intervenes: “But we’re not concerned with any of that. We are not concerned with how, when or in what circumstances we leave the European Union.”
“We are concerned only with whether the Prime Minister’s advice to HM the Queen was unlawful.”
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Stuart Coster
@StuartCoster
All the times the govt's own EU referendum pamphlet, delivered to every house, said that voting Leave meant "less access", "losing full access" & "uncertainty and risk" about the Single Market. But a majority voted Leave anyway.
#democracy @LeaveMnsLeave @DeborahMeaden
Here's the Remain campaign's widely distributed 'Europe & You' leaflet, stating that our votes "will decide your family's future" & "at risk" was being "free to trade with all EU countries with no barriers". A majority voted Leave anyway.
#democracy @Change_Britain @DeborahMeaden
Here's Will Straw, director of the Remain campaign, highlighting that Leave campaigners had "conceded" that outside the EU the UK would lose access to the Single Market. "We must be absolutely clear about what this means", he said. A majority voted Leave anyway
#democracy @montie
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