In yet another blow to his leadership, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend the Parliament from this week until mid-October was ruled unlawful by Scotland's highest court on Wednesday.
A panel of three judges at the Court of Session in Scotland found in favour of a cross-party group of politicians who were challenging Johnson's move, which saw the UK Parliament being suspended this week amid a string of Brexit vote defeats for the UK PM.
In a summary of their findings, the judges said that the suspension of the Parliament was motivated by the "improper purpose of stymying Parliament".
"The Court will accordingly make an Order declaring that the Prime Minister's advice to HM [Her Majesty] the Queen and the prorogation which followed thereon was unlawful and is thus null and of no effect," the summary judgment notes, with a full judgment to be released on Friday.
The decision overturns an earlier ruling from the court, which said last week Johnson had not broken the ...
