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Originally Posted by arista
Last night Newsnight BBC2HD
Nick Watt
Order of Council via Privy Council
Johnson PM can suspend the Act of Parliament
Halting any Extension.
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Not happening
The constitutional position is simple
It is not open to the government, by Order in Council or side letter or a message written on the side of a startled cow, to do a thing which circumvents or frustrates a statute
Public law 101, 1968 case of Padfield
And any attempt at such tomfoolery can and would be quashed by the High Court on the basic Padfield constitutional principle within a couple of days, if not a few hours
Principle so basic it would not need to go to Supreme Court
The Guardian