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I didn't click on the headline when o saw it earlier but I believe Johnson has left the door open to not recalling parliament until the 14th if they lose anyway.
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Surely court case will be brought, courts will say "we just had a ruling on this case, you can't suspend Parliament for political reasons" and they'll be back the next day?
Depends on whether or not the court ruling hinges on the length of the prorogation I guess?
Also if Parliament goes back you'd hope maybe they'd have the foresight to legally remove the power to prorogue indefinitely from the PM, as it's clearly open to abuse.
Painfully obvious that I am not a lawyer so maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't seem to troubling to me
Stonehedge
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Supreme Court case - Supposing they find that the proroguing was illegal and therefore didn't happen, as you were, parliament recalled. Given that it didn't really work for Johnson anyway (Benn Bill still went through) what is to stop this:
Remainy gang still don't want GE before 31st Oct, so Johnson limps on. Pretends a deal is getting closer. Comes back from the summit mid Oct - soz, no deal happening. Prorogues parliament again on 24th Oct, just for a week and resigns so he doesn't have to hand in the extension request. Then we're out, GE happens and he rides back on a crest of Brexit party supporters.