Missing Persons

[Paddy]

In what way has vetran missed the point?

Sounded to me like a good summary of the situation.

The court case is all about Royal Prerogative that May believes she has, it is not confined to Brexit.

Part of the argument this afternoon

The government lawyer repeats his view that domestic UK rights are "susceptible to change at an EU level by exercise of government action", saying that to use a more "emotive" phrase, these rights can be "destroyed".

He says, in theory, 99.9% of domestic rights could be removed under the UK's prerogative powers. Lord Mance takes issue with this, saying the chance of the Council of Ministers and European Commission agreeing to this is "rather remote" and that the UK would probably find itself being outvoted.

He makes an interesting analogy, saying a distinction must be drawn about members of a club having to comply with changes in dress code and members either being expelled or giving notice of their intention to leave.

[Mordac]

The court case is all about Royal Prerogative that May believes she has, it is not confined to Brexit.

Part of the argument this afternoon

So to summarise, if these "prerogative" powers are removed and handed over to parliament, the government can't so much as fart without putting it before parliament first?