So, it seems there are plans for the Prime Minister to use a second letter to the EU Council to get round the Benn Surrender Act.
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In news that seems to have lit the Remainer blue touch paper, the Business Secretary, Andrea Leadsom, yesterday told ITV's Peston programme that it was absolutely reasonable for the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to follow up the Benn Surrender Act Article 50 extension request letter, with another one cancelling it.
This has been deemed by Remainer campaigners and lawyers as both unreasonable and unlawful, with the Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, Tweeting:
"Andrea Leadsom’s comments are neither the spirit nor the letter of the law. If there is no deal by the end of next week, the Prime Minister must ask for, and accept, an extension. One letter. No equivocation."
But Starmer was quite happy of course to see The Speaker, John Bercow, ride a coach and horses through House of Commons rules, wasn't he? And no-one seems to care that Speaker Bercow was recently talking to the EU Parliament President about Brexit, do they?
Anyway, Any supplementary letter from Boris would be hauled straight off to the Supreme Court to be quashed, under the principle that the government cannot do anything that would 'frustrate' an Act of Parliament. So unless it has some real legal weight behind it, that second letter would probably be a fruitless exercise and a waste of paper, ink and a stamp.
But, as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Now, the former Foreign secretary, ..
