Afternoon
summary
Boris
Johnson has refused to rule out suspending parliament for a second time. (See
5.53pm.) He was speaking as a three-day supreme court hearing held to determine
whether the current suspension (prorogation) is lawful came to an end. Lady
Hale, president of the court, said it hopes to publish a decision early next
week. In the final session Lord Pannick QC, representing Gina Miller, said that
if the government lost parliament should reconvene next week, with the Speaker
and Lord Speaker summoning MPs and peers back to work. See 4.57pm for a full
summary of the day’s events in court.
Downing
Street has refused to commit to tabling its Brexit plans for replacing the
Irish backstop within two weeks, branding it an “artificial deadline” and
agreeing only to share informal “non-papers” on its preferred solutions.
Irish
premier Leo Varadkar says he will try to get a deal on Brexit when he meets
Boris Johnson in New York next week. “We were in touch today. I’m going to meet
him next week in New York and try to get a deal,” he said. The leaders will
both be attending the UN Climate Action Summit.
Brexit
uncertainty and the slowdown in global growth has weakened the economy and made
an interest rate cut more likely, the Bank of England has said.
A no-deal
Brexit will slice almost 3% from Britain’s economic growth over the next three
years compared with just 0.6% from the rest of the EU, according to the OECD’s
latest health check of the global economy.
Nicola
Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has implied the Queen should refuse to be
drawn into a future vote on Scottish independence after David Cameron admitted
he asked the monarch to intervene in 2014.
That’s all
from me for today.
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