Brexit Basics 10: update 15th October

Another of our occasional updates of news and comment on Brexit.

On 10 October, the House of Lords Constitution Committee published a report calling for Parliamentary assent before Article 50 is triggered.

No such luck; on the same day in a statement to the Commons, Brexit Secretary David Davis told the House that triggering Article 50 was a Prerogative power and that there would be no need for Parliamentary approval: Continue reading