After this Brexit ruling, MPs must seize their moment | Martin Kettle

Theresa May can no longer keep her EU plans secret. Parliament should now hold her to account and show what sovereignty really means

It is hard to think of a legal ruling with bigger political consequences than the one the lord chief justice and his colleagues handed down in the high court on Thursday. As a result, the May government’s secretive Brexit strategy will have to be rethought to comply, parliament will have to stop cowering in the corner about the referendum as it has done too often, while the welcome likelihood of MPs using their influence to ensure some form of “soft Brexit” has dramatically increased – as the immediate response to the news in the markets showed.

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