Supreme Court and Brexit powers

Written by David Fletcher 09 Dec 2016
Supreme Court and Brexit powers

The UK's biggest constitutional case in decades, how we begin the process of leaving the EU, was discussed at the Supreme Court this week. Judgement is expected in January. The Government says it doesn't need MPs' approval to trigger Brexit, whereas Labour called for a Brexit plan to be outlined before Article 50 is triggered. There was a vote to ‘respect’ the Government's timetable for leaving. Although the result could complicate the Government's triggering of the process for the UK leaving the EU, it is not expected to stop Brexit happening. MPs also supported a Labour motion calling for Parliament to ‘properly scrutinise’ the Government in its proposals for leaving the EU. The votes followed a compromise between Labour and the Conservatives, who had argued over the questions to be put. See

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