The PM should put it to a House of Commons vote.
If it fails, she will have to resign. Her successor could call an election.
I don’t see this as a huge setback. It actually seems more in line with the tradition of parliamentary sovereignty. And likely in line with the 1972 Act, which does not give the PM the right to act unilaterally in this way. That would be a parliamentary prerogative. And fair enough.
Once this gets through Parliament, it will be that much stronger.
Go Brexit!!!
Sadly, its not as simple as that. Thanks to an act of constitutional vandalism by the last government, the ‘Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011’ mandates that Parliament can only be dissolved in less than five years if 2/3 of the Commons Agrees. Even if everyone in the Tory Party agreed, they don’t have the requisite supermajority, and would have to have the cooperation of the next two largest parties, Labour and the SNP. Labour wouldn’t agree to it, because the polls say they will lose even more MPs thanks to Corbyn, and the SNP could not hope to gain any more seats than they already have.
Parliamentary sovereignty was applied in approving the referendum in the first place. The referendum took place at the direction of an Act of Parliament. That should be quite sufficient to establish that the govt applying the result of the referendum is under the umbrella of Parliamentary sovereignty.
This is just a b.s. attempt to drive a wedge into the process, hoping to overturn the result of the referendum.
I would agree....should this NOT pass via Parliament, she’s finished. Another election needs to be held.
But I don’t see where any of this can go if Parliament doesn’t pass it. The stock market will drop by 500 points that day and maybe another 500 the next day. All of the EU commentary and bitterness? Where do you go now?
The odds of Parliament passing it? This would be an interesting twist, with some Labor members opposing the exit and some in favor of it. Same with the Tories.
As for another election? The only thing I can see is that fewer Labor members will be elected. Lot of negativity with the general public right now with Labor.