Report: UK PM To Trigger #Brexit Without Parliamentary Vote

Report: UK PM To Trigger #Brexit Without Parliamentary Vote

Despite concerns that Prime Minister Theresa May will not uphold the June 23rd Brexit vote, it doesn’t look like she is willing to let a three-ring circus develop in which protesters tout bogus climate change links to Brexit or equally bogus claims of economic doom.

The Telegraph is reporting that she will invoke Article 50—the mechanism outlined in the Lisbon Treaty for leaving the European Union—without a vote in the Commons, thus denying the “Remain” supporters the opportunity to block or delay Brexit.

The Telegraph reports:

Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before opening negotiations to formally trigger Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, The Telegraph has learned.

Opponents of Brexit claim that because the EU referendum result is advisory it must be approved by a vote in the Commons before Article 50 – the formal mechanism to leave the EU – is triggered.

However, in a move which will cheer Eurosceptics, The Telegraph has learned that Mrs May will invoke Article 50 without a vote in Parliament

It had been suggested – by Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister, and Owen Smith, the Labour leadership candidate, among others –  that Remain-supporting MPs could use a Parliamentary vote to stop Brexit.

But sources say that because Mrs May believes that “Brexit means Brexit” she will not offer opponents the opportunity to stall Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.

A Downing Street source said: “The Prime Minister has been absolutely clear that the British public have voted and now she will get on with delivering Brexit.”

Prime Minister May has consulted with lawyers who have determined that she does indeed have the executive power to invoke Article 50 without a parliamentary vote.

Meanwhile, lawyers representing “a group of anonymous clients” have mounted a legal challenge to force the parliamentary vote.

The Telegraph continues:

Mrs May has consulted Government lawyers who have told the Prime Minister she has the executive power to invoke Article 50 and begin the formal process of exiting the European Union without a vote in Parliament.

. . . .  A group of lawyers has mounted a legal challenge in a bid to force Mrs May to hold a parliamentary vote.

The case, which will be heard in the High Court in October, argues that Article 50 cannot be invoked until the European Communities Act of 1972 is repealed.

However Government lawyers are confident that they will win, paving the way for Article 50 to be triggered at the beginning of next year, which could see Britain leave the European Union in 2019.

Bill Cash, a eurosceptic Conservative MP and leading Brexit campaigner, said:  “It sounds emphatic and that’s what we want to hear.

“There were people who are threatening to try and stop Brexit. The bottom line is that here is nothing that could possibly be allowed to stand in its way. Everyone in Europe is expecting it, the decision has been taken by the British people and that’s it. Let’s get on with it.”

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