the case in scotland, northern ireland and london, sirjohn major hasjoined ireland and london, sirjohnse in ireland and london, sirjohn major hasjoined the case in london alongside gina miller who has already won a famous brexit court case in the high court, has significant is his involvement? her case is about proving the unlawful intention behind seeking the suspension of parliament. intention is a difficult thing to prove. if you have in your back pocket not just a prove. if you have in your back pocket notjust a former prime minister but a former conservative prime minister, if he says the only basis on which this could have been done was to reduce the amount of parliamentary time for mps to debate brexit options, that is very powerful. thank you. a major international study has found that women who have menopausal hormone therapy experience an increased risk of developing breast cancer for more than a decade after treatment ends. researchers from the university of oxford who looked at more than 100,000 women from around the world estimate a million cases of breast cancer may have

former prime minister sirjohn major says he‘s joining campaigner gina miller‘s legal bid to stop the od afternoon. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i‘m anita mcveigh. a judge sitting in scotland‘s highest civil court has rejected a request for an injunction, preventing the suspension of parliament, but says it‘s in the public interest for a full hearing as soon as possible. a group of 75 parliamentarians were seeking an interim interdict — similar to an injunction — at the court of session ahead of a full hearing. lord doherty said he believed the case should be heard as soon as possible and it‘s been brought forward to tuesday. the snp mpjoanna cherry, who was behind the challenge, spoke after the hearing this morning. thejudge has declined to grant interim orders, that is like an emergency order. but he hasn‘t made any ruling on the merits of our argument that the prorogation should be stopped. he wants to hear further and full arguments on tuesday morning, here at the court of session, before making a decision. and so i see that as a victory for us. he has said there is no urgency ove

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sirjohn major and now labour‘s deputy leader tom watson has joined the court case.g this because the decision to suspend or prove parliament is an unprecedented affront to democracy. so, tom watsonjoining unprecedented affront to democracy. so, tom watson joining that court battle at the high court, which includes gina miller and sirjohn major in an temp two getjudges to prevent the suspension or broking of parliaments. —— pro—broking. the prime minister has said... in the last couple of weeks there has been a great deal of movement from the eu side. they do think that the uk is serious, as indeed we are, about doing a deal. they also understand the parameters of what needs to be done. the current withdrawal agreement just doesn't work for the uk. it has been thrown out three times. it keeps us locked into eu law. it makes it impossible for us to run a into eu law. it makes it impossible for us to run a room into eu law. it makes it impossible for us to run a room trade. it means basically that the uk could be bossed around by brussels with no comeback, no say. that

sirjohn major knows all about tory fights over europe, they plagued his time in office.gners make their case that the government is breaking the law. that's one battle, the other will be fought in parliament. they'll have less time, but opposition parties and some tories will try to change the law to force the government to delay brexit again. i hope that parliament will take a series of actions in a proper, orderly way that by the end of the week mean, that borisjohnson knows that as prime minister, he has the backing of many, many of us to get a deal, but if he doesn't get a deal, he's going to have to seek an extension. to succeed, mps from several parties will need to work together, so are they confident? i'm always hopeful and i don't want to make predictions. all i know is that what we are trying to do is the right thing to do and i believe a majority of mps recognise that a no—deal exit is very damaging to our economy. meanwhile, ministers have promised to step up the tempo on talks with the eu, but ireland's deputy prime minister isn't sounding optimistic. at the

sirjohn major knows all about tory fights over europe. they plagued his time in office.lp campaigners make their case that the government is breaking the law. that is one battle — the other will be fought in parliament. they will have less time, but opposition parties and some tories will try to change the law to force the government to delay brexit again. i hope that parliament will take a series of actions in a proper, orderly way, that, by the end of the week mean that borisjohnson knows that, as prime minister, he has the backing of many, many of us to get a deal but if he doesn't get a deal, he is going to have to seek an extension. to succeed, mps from several parties will need to work together. so, are they confident? i'm always hopeful and i don't want to make predictions. is the right thing to do and i believe a majority of mps recognise that a no deal exit is very damaging to our economy. meanwhile, ministers have promised to step up the tempo on talks with the eu but ireland's deputy prime minister isn't sounding optimistic. at the moment, nothing credible has

sirjohn major knows all about tory fights over europe, they plagued his time in office.aking the law. that's one battle — the other will be fought in parliament. they'll have less time, but opposition parties and some tories will try to change the law to force the government to delay brexit again. to succeed, mps from several parties will need to work together, so are they confident? i'm always hopeful, and i don't want to make predictions. all i know is that what we are trying to do is the right thing to do and i believe a majority of mps recognise that a no—deal exit is very damaging to our economy. meanwhile, ministers have promised to step up the tempo on talks with the eu, but ireland's deputy prime minister isn't sounding optimistic. at the moment, nothing credible has come from the british government in the context of an alternative to the backstop. you know, if that changes, great. borisjohnson is being asked searching questions from many sides. for the latest developments you can go to our website for all the different aspects of it, just go to bbc .com/ news. a

sirjohn major knows all about tory fights over europe, they plagued his time in office.aigners make their case that the government is breaking the law. that's one battle, the other will be fought in parliament. they'll have less time, but opposition parties and some tories will try to change the law to force the government to delay brexit again. i hope that parliament will take a series of actions in a proper, orderly way that by the end of the week mean, that borisjohnson knows that as prime minister, he has the backing of many, many of us to get a deal, but if he doesn't get a deal, he's going to have to seek an extension. to succeed, mps from several parties will need to work together, so are they confident? i'm always hopeful and i don't want to make predictions. all i know is that what we are trying to do is the right thing to do and i believe a majority of mps recognise that a no—deal exit is very damaging to our economy. meanwhile, ministers have promised to step up the tempo on talks with the eu, but ireland's‘s deputy prime minister isn't sounding optimistic. at

what i thought was interesting was a backlash against sirjohn major getting involved with gina millerogue parliament and so on. john major is going to court with her to fight this proroguing isn't he. to challenge the process, we need to keep remembering the process thatis need to keep remembering the process that is being challenged rather than whether or not believe. it is interesting thatjohn whether or not believe. it is interesting that john major whether or not believe. it is interesting thatjohn major has been credit ceased because he did this in different circumstances in 1997, so he is saying it is wrong for another prime minister to do it, but there is more at stake arguably in this case than there was whenjohn major was proroguing. everyone has an opinion on its. our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman said yesterday on the radio, john major asa yesterday on the radio, john major as a former prime minister could be as a former prime minister could be a powerful addition to that case because he could talk about from a prime minister's point of view. absolutely. it is p

the former conservative prime minister, sirjohn major, has also said he wanted to be involved. correspondent jonathan blake reports. chanting: stop the coup! in manchester... chanting: stop the coup! in london... boris out! and right on the prime minister's doorstep, anger and outrage this week at his decision to suspend parliament, but boris johnson says it is mps, not him, that are raising the chances of leaving the eu without a deal. the more the parliamentarians try to block the no—deal brexit, the more likely it is that we'll end up in that situation, so, the best thing now is for us to get on and make our points to our european friends with clarity and with vigour, and that's what we're doing. the decision to shut up shop here for five weeks took many by surprise. now labour is urging more action against what it says is a government acting unlawfully. we'll use any means necessary to prevent this undemocratic behaviour. and that includes people taking to the streets, that includes people taking to the airways, that includes people going to court. but protests and legal ch

among those opposing the move is the former conservative prime minister, sirjohn major, who‘sjoined asion. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. chanting: stop the coup! in manchester... chanting: stop the coup! in london... boris out! and right on the prime minister‘s doorstep, anger and outrage this week at his decision to suspend parliament, but boris johnson says it is mps, not him, that are raising the chances of leaving the eu without a deal. the more the parliamentarians try to block the no—deal brexit, the more likely it is that we‘ll end up in that situation, so, the best thing now is for us to get on and make our points to our european friends with clarity and with vigour, and that‘s what we‘re doing. the decision to shut up shop here for five weeks took many by surprise. now labour is urging more action against what it says is a government acting unlawfully. we'll use any means necessary to prevent this undemocratic behaviour. and that includes people taking to the streets, that includes people taking to the airways, that includes people going to court. but pr

then sirjohn major will launch his legal challenge, with anti—brexit campaigner gina miller, before aollowing brexit, were going to have a busy week! —— you are going to have. if those legal challenges fail, parliament will be suspended sometime between the 9th and 12th september. let's see what this all means now with aoife o'donoghue, who's a professor of international law at durham university. thanks for coming in. thank you. given your knowledge of the law and parliamentary rules and everything, what are your thoughts on what is going on? i think they are unlikely to win. you can never tell when it's going through the courts, but prerogative powers are very hard to challenge in court, they are fully in executive function and normally the courts don't look at them at all. because of that, because they are an entirely political decision. so it would be a big change of the courts did. the one in northern ireland is slightly different because it's basically the good friday agreement and the idea that a no—deal brexit would hit northern ireland just so badly, so there is a different ba

majority of over 8,000 to win the seat. i've been discussing the impact of the by—election result with sirjohn curtice, professor of politicshat the conservatives are indeed enjoying something of a bounce under borisjohnson, but it's a very specific kind of bounce. it's a squeeze on the brexit party votes. certainly the brexit party performance far less good, for example, than the 30% it got in the constituency back in may, or indeed what the brexit party managed to achieve in the peterborough by—election where they only narrowly lost out and defeated the conservatives quite substantially. here, the conservatives clearly emerged well ahead of the brexit party, albeit not well enough to be able to win the seat, and that brexit party vote certainly needs squeezing further by the conservatives. the second thing that we have had confirmed, with the labour party recording its worst ever performance in this constituency, just saving its deposit, is that the labour party is in deep electoral trouble. though doubtless in brecon, many a labour voter were switching to the liberal democrats in order to help defeat the conservatives. b