A worrying Christmas present for TMay and the Brexiteers from Team Trump
The Trump administration planning to exploit BREXIT for the benefit of the US Tomorrow’s Times front page
What’s missing this Christmas is any sign of peace and goodwill between LEAVE and REMAIN
Alastair Meeks on “The Remains of the Day” It’s coming up to six months since the referendum and there doesn’t seem to be much sign of peace or goodwill in the Christmas period between Remain and Leave. Remain-supporting newspaper op-ed writers vituperate the behaviour of Leavers. Leave-supporting newspaper op-ed writers screech at the perfidy of Remainers. On Twitter, the Brexit debate has become egg-bound. Nor is this confined to the empty vessels making the most noise. Opinion polls consistently show…
POLL ALERT: Polling Matters / Opinium: Voters back ‘soft Brexit’ but reject second referendum – even if the economy worsens
Embed from Getty Images The first poll commissioned by the ‘Polling Matters’ podcast, conducted by Opinium, shows little appetite for another referendum but we shouldn’t assume voters want a ‘hard Brexit’ either writes Keiran Pedley Since the EU referendum result was announced last June, many have sought to explain on behalf of voters why they voted the way they did and therefore surmise what they want from any Brexit deal. To try and understand what is really going on…
Article 50 can’t be invoked, surely, without the country knowing whether its revocable or not
David Davis tells MPs govt doesn't know if Article 50 process can be stopped once it starts – whether its 'revocable' — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 14, 2016 Latest Betfair Article 50 betting Betting on the delay at 2/1 might be a good bet The Laura Kuenssberg Tweet reporting that Brexit Sec, David Davis, saying that the government doesn’t know if Article 50 process can be stopped once it starts highlights an issue that’s been around for some time and…
Never gonna give EU up. The latest Brexit legal challenge, this time to keep Le Royaume-Uni within the single market
Picture: Protester outisde the Supreme Court whilst the Article 50 appeal was being heard We’ve known each other for so long but it’s time to say goodbye to UK membership of the single market. Overnight it was reported Theresa May is facing a fresh legal challenge to her Brexit plans as campaigners prepare to petition the High Court for Britain to stay in the single market. The claimants, including one Remain and one Leave voter, are seeking a judicial review…
After the advocacy, what next for the Article 50 case in the Supreme Court?
Picture credit: Twitter Alastair Meeks: current odds on the Government winning are value 2016 has had many twists and turns, but from a lawyer’s viewpoint one of the treats has been the unfolding of the Article 50 case. We have been given the opportunity to observe perhaps the most important case in constitutional law for nearly 200 years. Let’s set to one side the disgraceful behaviour of the press and some extremist politicians in seeking to bludgeon the judiciary into…
Day 3 of the Supreme Court hearing opens with the Government’s Betfair chances down to lowest level yet
You can watch live here. In the Commons today there is the debate on the Labour motion on the triggering of Article 50 and its neat amendment by the Government to accept the principle but links in a statement on the referendum outcome itself. Whether TMay is able to set the process of extraction going by her self-imposed end March deadline isn’t clear. Her problem remains that a sizeable group of her own backbenchers are against her and that she…
The Article 50 Supreme Court case betting moves a notch to the government on the first morning – but still behind
Whether you can read anything into this I doubt If you’ve got lots of time on your hands you can watch the case live here. The best comment so far is “OJ Simpson it ain’t”. This is all dry legal argument and will go on like this for most of the week. The verdict’s not expected until the new year. Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet