The Supreme Court has decided that “that the Prime Minister’s advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect.”

Further in the judgement it can be read that the Parliament was not prorogued, the decision to suspend the Parliament’s works were illegal.

The Court stated that when the “Royal Commissioners walked in to the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper,” as no such action should have been taken. The judges added in the official opinion that “The Court is bound to conclude, therefore, that the [Boris Johnson’s] decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament  was  unlawful  because  it  had  the effect  of  frustrating  or  preventing  the  ability  of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.”

John Bercow, the Speaker of Parliament, who is to resign next month, will decide what the Parliament will do next.

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