A chastened Boris Johnson will on Wednesday fly back to London to face calls for his resignation after Britain’s Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to his authority and his attempt to stop MPs holding him to account on Brexit.
The prime minister was forced to cut short a visit to New York after Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously that his advice to the Queen to suspend parliament for five weeks was unlawful. MPs return to Westminster today seeking retribution.
In a damning indictment of Mr Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament, Brenda Hale, president of the Supreme Court, said: “The effect upon the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme” because it stopped parliament exercising its constitutional role.
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