The decision is a devastating blow for the Prime Minister, who was accused in court last week of an unlawful “abuse of power”.
MPs will return to Westminster tomorrow after Boris Johnson lost a historic Supreme Court case after judges unanimously ruled that his advice to the Queen to suspend Parliament was unlawful.
The panel of 11 justices decided the five-week prorogation of Parliament was designed to prevent Parliament from carrying out its duties, and was therefore “void and of no effect”.
Mr Johnson immediately faced calls to resign from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The judges sided with a previous decision in a Scottish court that Mr Johnson’s prorogation decision was unlawful because it was “motivated by the improper purpose of stymieing Parliament”.
MPs are returning to Parliament and will sit on Wednesday morning after the Supreme Court judges decided the PM’s suspension was “void”.
Commons Speaker Jon Bercow announced that he was putting in place arrangements for MPs to sit at 11.30am.
“The citizens of the UK are entitled to expect that Parliament does discharge its core functions, that it is in a position to scrutinise the executive, to hold ministers to account and to legislate if it chooses,” he said.
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