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So future prorogs won't be more heavily scrutinized?
I imagine that unless future ones are limited to the 4-6 days then they'll be open to scrutiny if they fall close to significant events.
Boris could, probably, prorogue again today as long as it was to be back on 1st October or thereabouts. Because then it'd not have the effect of preventing parliament scrutinising the government.
There was the distinction made about it being the effect rather than intention to prevent scrutiny. So they didn't actually say that Boris did it to stop scrutiny. They said that because it had that effect then actually the intention was irrelevant. So they didn't need to rule on whether he lied to the Queen.
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So future prorogs won't be more heavily scrutinized?
Or we don't know because the ruling was not about that?
I'd image there will be lots of blog posts from experts explaining whatswhat this week, time for a little reading up for me.