Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including day two of the supreme court hearing to decide if Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of parliament was lawfulLunchtime summary‘Very little time remaining’ – Summary of Juncker’s speech to MEPsSupreme court hearing – What you need to know 3.01pm BST O’Neill says there was a “cunning” change in what the government decided to do.Instead of proroguing parliament over 31 October, instead it decided to prorogue parliament first. 2.54pm BST Here is O’Neill on why the PM’s lengthy prorogation of parliament was so serious.It appears that the prime minister’s actions in proroguing parliament has had the intent and effect of preventing parliament, impeding parliament, from holding the government politically to account at a time when the government is taking decisions which will have constitutional and irreversible impacts on our country. That fundamentally alters the balance of our constitution because it is using the power to allow the executive to govern … at this crucial time and all without the proper constitutional accountability. Continue reading…
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