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Your ears are saved as I have been binned from @BBCr4today this morning because the Corbyn interview ran on, so what might I have said...?
... This was a dramatic verdict on the limits of government power

It establishes that the PM does not have unfettered power to suspend parliament because Courts can take a view on legality on decision to prorogue...
... and their decision about what is reasonable would be driven by whether it conflicts with two principles - parliamentary sovereignty and parliamentary accountability...
...the judgment establishes in law the previous constitutional principle of Parliament’s role as the body that holds government to account - as well as the preeminent law making body...
... the court cited the fact that parliament could not examine govt policy, ask questions and hold government to account for five of the eight weeks in run up to 31 October as significant in their judgment that this prorogation had an ‘extreme’ effect...
... And the judgment establishes that prorogation is not a proceeding of Parliament but something imposed on Parliament by govt and so the courts are not prevented from looking at it - significant for all future Prime Ministers exercising the power.
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