Bye Bye Boris!

[Jobbo]

Boris showing no sign of resigning.

How soon will Cummings be chucked under a bus, or will he manage to chuck Boris under it first?

[GG.]

Sounds like he wants to prorogue again, for 6 days.

Where was that reported, Jon?

[Foz]

Boris showing no sign of resigning.

How soon will Cummings be chucked under a bus, or will he manage to chuck Boris under it first?

I was talking about that earlier, someone going to take the fall for this surely?

[IanF]

Jobbo/GG - how often does the Supreme Court come back with a unanimous decision, and is it usual to have 11 Judges sitting?

[Jobbo]

11 judges sitting in the Supreme Court is most unusual; that is the maximum number which can possibly sit. Generally it is 5.

I don't really have a feel for exactly how often they come back with a unanimous verdict, but with 11 of them it's less likely that you'll get unanimity than with 5. Certainly a lot of the leading cases I studied at law school weren't unanimous with 5 judges (back when it was the House of Lords).

ETA, after canvassing a colleague's view on the proportion of unanimous verdicts - we think under 50% are unanimous. Probably biased by the number of cases involving Lord Denning who was a bit of a maverick. But we did agree that it's also an unusually quick judgment.

[NotoriousREV]

When was the last time 11 sat? What was that case and verdict?

[Jobbo]

The first time may also have been the last time: Miller. That wasn't unanimous.

ETA: that's the previous Miller case about whether Parliament had to authorise the Art.50 notification, heard in December 2016.

[IanF]

Interesting, thanks Jobbo.

[NotoriousREV]

Interesting, thanks Jobbo.

+1

[JonMad]

Sounds like he wants to prorogue again, for 6 days.

Where was that reported, Jon?

Some sky chap on twitter quoting him.

[Beany]

Current entertainment:

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[DaveE]

Current entertainment:

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The incorrect perspective in the first of those drawings is making my stabbing hand itch

[dinny_g]

[IanF]

AG in the poo aka fall guy.

ETA - https://news.sky.com/story/exclusive-pm ... l-11818599

[Jobbo]

AG in the poo aka fall guy.

ETA - https://news.sky.com/story/exclusive-pm ... l-11818599

What's the betting that Cummings leaked that himself? First under the bus.

[IanF]

Gauke has said he’ll back BoJo in confidence vote, so highly likely BoJo will remain PM until after Brexit or extension. Labour need him gone to have a chance of winning a GE, so we're back where we started.

[Richard]

How’s Brexit going?

[Beany]

How’s Brexit going?

Easiest deal in history mate.

[Richard]

Nice!

[Zonda_]

Pretty good speech from Corbyn with some funnies too.