The high court in Belfast has declared that the government's political stance on a no deal Brexit is lawful.
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The High Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland has today ruled that the courts should not intervene in the political arena.
The court rejected three cases that claim that a no deal Brexit would lead to a hard border and so damage the Northern Ireland peace process.
In delivering the verdict, Lord Justice Bernard McCloskey said:
"Virtually all of the assembled evidence belongs to the world of politics, both national and supra-national.
"Within the world of politics, the well-recognised phenomena of claim and counter-claim, assertion and counter-assertion, allegation and denial, blow and counter-blow, alteration and modification of government policy, public statements, unpublished deliberations, posturing, strategy and tactics are the very essence of what is both countenanced and permitted in a democratic society."
This ruling did not though address the matter of prorogation, that is down to the Supreme court to decide on next week.
But the judge's comments here do possibly indicate - well to me anyway - that had he done so, the verdict might have been similar.
But the battle of words is still raging on the prorogation issue.
Remainer MPs seem intent on getting back inside Parliament, even though the conference season is fast approaching and after passing what they say is a bullet-proof anti-no deal Brexit law that could potentially give them until the end of January to do whatever it is t..
