Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens as the father of a young girl, who is being treated in the Acorn childrens' ward, expresses his anger over hospital waiting times during his visit to Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, east London on September 18, 2019. Picture: Yui Mok / POOL / AFP
In the second of three days of highly-charged arguments over whether Johnson’s advice to Queen Elizabeth II to suspend the legislature was unlawful, Britain’s highest court was told that his move was destroying parliamentary democracy. “The mother of parliaments is being shut down by the father of lies. Rule that this prorogation is an unlawful abuse of power,” O’Neill told judges.
The government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court that parliament had been debating Britain’s exit from the European Union for three years since the 2016 referendum vote to leave. He said parliament had previously passed laws on prorogation, but there was no law relevant to the case and so England’s High Court was right that prorogation was not something the judiciary could intervene in.
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