The suspension of the activities of the British parliament requested by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and approved by Queen Elizabeth II, is legitimate. This was established by Lord Raymond Doherty, Scottish lawyer and senator of the College of Justice, judge of the Scottish Supreme Court, who therefore decided to reject the appeal presented by the Scottish National Party deputy, Joanna Cherry, and by the leader of the Lib-Dems, Jo Swinson, supported by Jo Maugham of the Good Law Project.
According to Lord Doherty the Prime Minister has the power to ask the Queen to extend his speech in Parliament – before which Westminster business remains at a standstill – despite the ongoing crisis.
The oppositions have therefore lost the first battlebut not war. England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate legal systems in the UK and two other lawsuits against the suspension of Parliament were also filed in London and Belfast. The judges are expected to rule in the next few days. What the applicants hope is that at least one of the three sentences will prove them right, ending the case in the Supreme Court, whose eventual verdict could not be ignored by Downing Street.
We recall that on Wednesday Johnson asked the Queen, who gave the go-ahead, to postpone her speech in Parliament to October 14, thus resulting in a suspension of the activities of the deputies of about 5 weeks. Traditionally, however, the stop lasts only a few days. According to the opposition, Johnson's will is the basis for the decision block any attempt by the opposition to prevent the No deal or, in any case, to put his mouth on the path that will lead to the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The Brexit deadline is in fact set for October 31, therefore only 15 days after the start of the works. Too short a time frame to pass any kind of binding motion.
While the decision of the other two courts is awaited, the representatives of the opposition, led by the Labor member Jeremy Corbyn, are also trying to follow another path: to ensure that Parliament votes on suspension upon return from summer recess, therefore from 3 to 9 September. The six days MPs will be allowed to work before the suspension set by the Queen.
