Some more on the attorney general's comments earlier about the row triggered by the High Court's Brexit ruling.

Jeremy Wright said some people wanted to "frustrate" the outcome of the EU referendum, adding: "But let me also say that a significant part of my job is to protect the rule of law. Part of that is to defend the court system, which is easier when it rules in your favour but just as important to do when it rules against you."

The claimants had "every right" to bring their case, and the judges were "entitled to decide it in any way they thought appropriate in accordance with their legal judgment", Mr Wright said.

He added that if the government lost its appeal to the Supreme Court, it would respect the verdict, "because that is what the rule of law requires and because, however big, or public, or political or controversial the case may be, the rule of law matters more".

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Asked whether the prime minister had a message for either of the US Presidential Candidates, a Downing Street spokesman said he "believed she would wish them both good luck".

Asked if the government would be happy to have a President Trump, he said "the presidential election is a matter for voters in America of course - we will work with whoever is the next president of the United States".

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A Downing Street spokesman said he would "not engage in speculation" about whether the government would put down a resolution to comply with last week's High Court judgement. 

He said the ruling was "not explicit" but said "the logical conclusion is it would require an act of parliament".

The spokesman said the government's focus was on the appeal to the Supreme Court. He said the government was confident it has a strong legal case and he said "we are confident the ruling will be in our favour".

EU regulators contact UK authorities after they gave Nissan "support and assurances" over Brexit.

People need clarity on what Brexit means for both the UK and Welsh governments, Plaid Cymru says.

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Labour's Liz Kendall said she understood the party was "not going to vote against triggering Article 50.

Ms Kendall said "we want a fair and sane Brexit" saying Labour prioritised protecting worker's rights, single market access and environmental standards after the UK leaves the EU.

Ms Kendall also advised the prime minister to bring out a green or white paper setting out the government's negotiation position. 

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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said: "Leaving the EU means being out of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice."

Mr Rees-Mogg said staying in the single market and remaining under ECJ jurisdiction would mean the UK effectively remaining in the EU. 

"Without [leaving] that we haven't left the European Union," he added. 

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The Green party has criticised the plans of UKIP's interim leader Nigel Farage to lead a protest march to the Supreme Court, calling them "an attempt to intimidate" and "undermine the rule of law."

Green justice spokeswoman Charley Pattison said: "Judges are not elected politicians and nor should they be subjected to any sort of political oversight or control."

Ms Pattison said: "We are disappointed by the half-hearted defence of the judiciary by Lord Chancellor Liz Truss MP. The Lord Chancellor swore an oath to respect the rule of law and defend the independence of the judiciary. We need her to act much more strongly against the attacks on democracy from extreme Brexiteers.”

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Candidate in the UKIP leadership race, Suzanne Evans, says she feels judges "should be subject to some sort of democratic control".

The government is to give its official response later to the High Court's decision that Parliament should vote on the formal process of leaving the EU. Ms Evans says she "questions the legitimacy of this particular case".

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Analysis by consultancy firm SPARCK has found that more than 70% of tweets sent by US voters in the last four weeks have been in favour of Republican candidate Donald trump. 

Some 74% of the 14 million tweets analysed backed him over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. 

Simon Sear, practice leader at SPARCK, identified some potential reasons for the imbalance: "The election has been particularly susceptible to Twitter bots in favour of the Trump campaign.

"We are also picking up signals that Trump supporters, frustrated at the perception of a media bias, are using Twitter as an alternative broadcast platform."

Judges could be "subject to some kind of democratic control", a UKIP leadership contender says.

Nate Silver, who famously predicted the US election result in all 50 states in 2012, has produced an analysis of how FBI director James Comey's announcement of a fresh probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, eleven days before the election, may have harmed her chances. 

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The Financial Times reports that the EU is reviewing the process of granting non-EU based financial institutions access to the single market. 

The current "equivalence" regime had been suggested as an option for UK-based banks to fall back on if their passporting rights - granting access to European financial markets - are lost after Brexit. 

The review into equivalence could require deeper checks into financial institutions that hope to trade in the EU.

The FT quotes one Brexit negotiator in Brussels, who jokes that "overhauling equivalence would be like moving the legal goalposts to a different pitch."

Read more: EU reconsiders financial market access rules, external