Supreme judgment

摘要

THE justices of the Supreme Court were never likely to overturn last November's ruling by the High Court. On January 24th they duly upheld, by eight votes to three, the decision that Theresa May's government needs parliamentary approval to trigger Article 50, the European Union's process for leaving the club. Although ministers appealed, arguing that the royal prerogative allows them to unmake as well as make treaties, they had expected to lose. The government has now drafted a short bill in hopes that it will become law in time for Mrs May to meet her deadline of invoking Article 50 by the end of March.