Figures in the Boris Johnson campaign have suggested that he is ready to suspend parliament at the end of October Luke Dray/GettyThe Queen must be kept out of Brexit controversy by establishing an inner privy council to advise her on proroguing parliament, one of Britain’s most eminent lawyers has proposed. In an article for The Times the retired Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption said that legal challenges to prevent Boris Johnson from suspending parliament to push through no-deal would prove futile. He warned that, under constitutional convention, the Queen would have little choice but to agree to any suspension asked for by her prime minister. Instead he suggested that a committee of privy counsellors should be established to advise the monarch on the constitutional propriety of requests by a future prime minister. Lord Sumption’s comments came after figures in the Johnson campaign suggested he was preparing…

Source: The Times July 17, 2019 15:56 UTC