Opinion: Judiciary, Especially Apex, Must Stand Firm Against Tyranny Of The Executive
The Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, took the unprecedented step of recommending the British Monarch that the British Parliament be prorogued for full five weeks from September 9 to October 14, 2019. This recommendation sent shock waves across the Mother of all Parliaments.
Members of Parliament and even British People saw this move as a bid to scuttle a discussion on Britain’s exit from the European Union – Brexit as it is colloquially called. It was but a crude attempt to minimize Parliament’s opportunity to block a no-deal Brexit that was to take effect from October 31, 2019. A no-deal Brexit means the UK would leave the European Union (EU) and there would be no agreements in place about what the relationship between the UK and the EU would be like in future.
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