Britain's Supreme Court is set to decide whether PM Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament
The court's entry into the three-and-a-half-year saga stems from PM Boris Johnson's"do or die" promise to take UK out of the EU without any further delay.
Juncker's office said Johnson was reminded that "it is the UK's responsibility to come forward with legally operational solutions" to the existing divorce deal that the British parliament refuses to accept.Johnson countered that there was a "good chance" of striking a new agreement if there was "movement" from Brussels.
The court must now rule on Johnson's motivation, and whether it has the right to make political adjudications at all. "If parliament is prorogued with no remedy available then the balance of power is tipped far too heavily to the executive," she said. Britain's beloved monarch is the formal head of state and has little choice but to trust the prime minister when he asks her to end parliamentary sessions.Johnson is already skirting the edges of the law by insisting that he would rather be "dead in a ditch" than ask his European counterparts to postpone Brexit for a third time.
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