Summary

  • High Court challenge to Brexit process succeeds

  • Ruling says MPs, not just PM, must approve Article 50 process

  • Government to appeal against decision

  • Bank of England raises 2017 UK growth forecast

  1. How MPs voted in the EU referendumpublished at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Press Association

    Most members of the House of Commons are believed to have voted Remain in the EU referendum.

    According to a survey of all 650 MPs carried out by the Press Association ahead of the referendum on June 23:

    • 480 MPs said they would be voting Remain, including 184 Conservatives 
    • 159 MPs said they would be voting Leave, including 139 Conservatives
    • 11 MPs were undeclared, including four Conservative.

    This gives Remain a notional Commons majority of at least 310.

    Some 218 Labour MPs said they would vote Remain while just 11 backed Leave. 

    All eight Liberal Democrat MPs intended to vote Remain, along with all 56 SNP MPs, all three Plaid Cymru MPs, all four Sinn Fein MPs and all three SDLP MPs. 

    Green MP Caroline Lucas also said she would vote Remain, as did independent MP Sylvia Hermon and the two Ulster Unionist MPs. 

    The eight DUP MPs said they would be voting to Leave, along with UkIP MP Douglas Carswell. 

  2. Should Parliament resist the will of the people?published at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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  3. Nothing to be scared of?published at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Business Statement

    House of Commons
    Parliament

    Alistair Burt

    Sticking to the subject of this morning's high court ruling Conservative Alsitair Burt urges the government not to feel "disappointed".

    Instead he urges them to welcome the operation of the British rule of law - "I thought that was what the referendum was about".

    He says this morning's decision is "nothing to be afraid of".

    David Lidington replies that the case involves important constitutional matters and that it is therefore "right and inevitable" that the case ends up in the Supreme Court.

  4. Debate on Brexit and scientific researchpublished at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    House of Lords
    Parliament

    Lord Soley

    Questions are over and debate begins on Lord Soley's motion "that this House takes note of the potential impact of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union on funding for universities and scientific research".

    The Labour peer says Parliament has a duty "to hold the government to account" and to advise over Brexit.

    Turning to research and higher education, he argues that "research is international and, within the European Union, it is transnational".

    He says the Russell Group of UK universities has said it is concerned that it should be able to "continue to recruit talented staff and students" from the EU "without bureaucratic visa restrictions".

    Lord Soley adds that the UK is the second-largest recipient of EU research grants, after Germany.

  5. Govt: 'Plenty of opportunities' for Brexit debatepublished at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Business statement

    House of Commons
    Parliament

    Ken Clarke

    Conservative Ken Clarke asks the Leader of the House for assurances that the government's appeal against today's High Court ruling doesn't mean it believes it is unaccountable to Parliament. 

    He adds that planned Brexit debates have such a short time limit many backbench members will find themselves with as little as three minutes to speak. He asks for the House to be given more time for debates over Brexit issues.

    Leader of the House David Lidington says he's surprised at Mr Clarke's "appetite for all night sittings" which he doesn't think will lead to "mature debate". 

    He adds that he's "sure" that there will be "plenty of opportunities" for debate but that the House voted "overwhelmingly" for the people to have the final say on Brexit.

    Speaker John Bercow says he'll be in the chair "whatever hours the House wants to sit".

  6. Johnson makes 'Titanic' Brexit commentpublished at 12:07 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson prompts laughter by predicting a "Titanic success" of Brexit.

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  8. On Thursday's Daily Politicspublished at 12:07 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are joined by the Times columnist Melanie Phillips to debate the outcome of the Brexit legal challenge, plus Chilcot, prisons policy, political cartoons and inflation.

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  9. High Court campaigners 'trying to frustrate the will of the British people'published at 12:07 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Jonathan Isaby

    Jonathan Isaby, editor of Brexit Central - a project to hold the government to account in honouring its pledge that 'Brexit means Brexit' - accused the team who brought the High Court case of trying to tie the legal process up in knots.

    He said the case involved people who've got more money than they know what to do with.

    And he claimed they were playing legal games to frustrate the will of the British people in a bid to delay Brexit.

  10. Is an early vote the best option?published at 11:49 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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  11. Wales First Minister: Mistake to appeal against High Court rulingpublished at 11:46 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones says it is a mistake for the government to appeal against the High Court ruling - and repeated his view that the devolved administrations should also get a vote on Mrs May's Brexit negotiating position.

    "The position of the Welsh Government has been consistent throughout - we accept the decision made by the people and will not work against the referendum result," he said.

    "We are working hard to get the best possible exit terms for Wales. However, it is important that votes take place in all four nations to endorse the UK negotiating position." 

  12. Would a quick vote on Article 50 steal rebel thunder?published at 11:46 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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  13. PM spokesman: Article 50 will not be derailed by High Court rulingpublished at 11:45 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Responding to Thursday's High Court ruling, the prime minister's official spokesman said the government has "no intention of letting this derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan." 

    The spokesman added that the prime minister has full confidence in the attorney general.

  14. Farage: Brexit ruling is voter 'betrayal'published at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Nigel Farage says he is "worried" Brexit will be watered-down after the High Court ruling

    The High Court ruling allowing Parliament a vote on the process of leaving the EU could be the start of a "deliberate wilful attempt" to "betray voters", Nigel Farage says.

    The UKIP leader said the decision could be the start of an attempt to “water-down what people had voted for”.

    Mr Farage added he believed if the vote was put to Parliament, the government “would lose”.

  15. Arron Banks says High Court judges have 'declared war' on democracypublished at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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  16. Government statement on High Court decision set for Mondaypublished at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Commons leader David Lidington says the government will make a statement to MPs about the High Court ruling on Brexit on Monday.

    During business questions, he said: "I can confirm to the House that it is the government's intention to appeal against today's judgment from the High Court.

    "We are, as the House is aware, in a situation where we have this judgment today and a very little while ago a judgment from the High Court of Northern Ireland which came to a completely different decision on the same subject.

    "So we now have the High Courts in two different parts of the United Kingdom coming to opposite conclusions on the same constitutional and legal question. So this will need to go to a higher court."

    He added that the government will give a statement to the Commons on Monday about the ruling and the appeal.

  17. Watch: Lord Speaker's statement on Brexit rulingpublished at 11:37 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Lord Fowler tells peers they can 'make reference' to the Brexit court ruling in debates.

  18. Labour MP who supported the Remain campaign says he will back Article 50published at 11:31 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Stephen Kinnock

    Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, who voted to remain in the EU, says he will be backing moves to trigger Article 50 in the wake of the High Court judgement.

    Describing the decision to leave the EU as the "most important since World War Two", he said: "I’m absolutely clear that the UK has to leave the EU," but he stressed that there are "a huge spectrum of options" around the type of departure.

    He argues that Parliament exists to scrutinise proposals put before it, adding: "We must trigger Article 50 on the basis of a sensible, balanced and rational decision."

  19. Watch: This result is about all our futurespublished at 11:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

    Investment fund manager Gina Miller, who was one of a group who brought the Article 50 case to court, says the case was about "process not politics".

  20. 'No matter how high you are, the law's above you'published at 11:29 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November 2016

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    Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Campbell of Pittenweem says that the Article 50 verdict shows the government that "no matter how high you are, the law's above you".

    He urges the minister to confirm that the government will respect "the sovereignty of Parliament". Minister Lord Bridges of Headley insists that it will.

    UKIP's Lord Pearson of Rannoch says the EU is heading towards the "three icebergs" of the euro, immigration and over-regulation.

    He says the UK should "get off this Titanic" as soon as possible.