GOVERNMENTS LEGAL ARGUMENT ON ARTICLE 50 PUBLISHED

The government has now published the legal basis for its argument in next week's high court hearing (HERE).  Infacts pointed out that it doesn't address at all the main point that triggering Article 50 starts a two year clock running after which we will be out of the EU come what may.

This is fundamental because it is widely accepted that the royal prerogative is not used to override statute and the European Communities Act 1972 (i.e. statute) will effectively become redundant after we exit the EU.

One of the counter arguments by anti-Brexit lawyers is that we could trigger article 50 using the royal prerogative but afterwards parliament does not pass The Great Repeal Act in which case we are out of the EU but still bound by all its laws!