Breaking: Unanimous Judgement from the Supreme Court...BORIS GETS SPANKED

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17. Cummings tweets gnomically:

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The central claim (that withdrawal requires further legislation) is wrong.

So ...

(1) Cummings obviously knows better than 11 Supreme Court judges.

(2) That isn't the central claim in the judgment at all, as the Guardian liveblog points out:

He seems to be referring to this passage in the summary (pdf) of the supreme court’s judgment (bold text inserted by me).

This prolonged suspension of parliamentary democracy took place in quite exceptional circumstances: the fundamental change which was due to take place in the Constitution of the United Kingdom on 31st October. Parliament, and in particular the House of Commons as the elected representatives of the people, has a right to a voice in how that change comes about. The effect upon the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.

This passage does not say that Brexit requires further legislation. It says that parliament wants to have a say, which is not the same thing.

(3) A central plank of Keen's case at the Supreme Court (and repeated claims by Johnson and others in or near government who seem to have forgotten the script today) was that prorogation had nothing to do with Brexit, but was simply to prepare for the Queen's Speech.

(4) Withdrawal definitely does need further legislation, even if it's to happen on 31 October as Johnson still plans. It was one of the corners prorogation boxed Johnson and Cummings into.