Gina Miller – Suspending Parliament ‘abuse of the PM’s powers’
Gina Miller, the lawyer who famously took the government to court over the question of whether it or Parliament had the right to trigger Article 50, has announced that she will be doing the same again if the new Prime Minister tries to prorogue Parliament in order to achieve a no deal Brexit. She told Sky’s Niall Paterson of the grounds for her case:
"We think it's beyond the prime minister's powers."
Anti-Brexit campaigner @thatginamiller says it would be an abuse of the PM's powers to suspend parliament to force through a no-deal #Brexit.
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— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) July 14, 2019
GM: We think it’s beyond the Prime Minister’s powers, because parliamentary sovereignty is actually the jewel in the constitutional crown. And we feel, from the advice and the case law we’ve looked at, that… it would be an abuse of his powers… to limit the voice of the representatives that we all elect.
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