Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 1:47 pm on 18 January 2017.
Well, the fundamental point that the Member just does not get, does not understand, no matter in how much detail it was explained in the Supreme Court, is that the argument is that there is no royal prerogative to replace laws and to undermine the role of Parliament. That was the whole point. There is no royal prerogative. If it ever existed, it was abolished by the bill of rights and by a series of decisions in the courts. That was the fundamental point. The Government could not rely on a prerogative that just did not exist. Parliament is sovereign. We operate under a system of sovereign parliamentary democracy. That was the fundamental point. The unfortunate point is that the Member seems to want to play fast and loose with the rule of law. And where that has happened in the past in other countries, it has led to an undermining of the rule of law. It is a very dangerous road to go down.