Article 50

Richard Drax Excerpts

Monday 7th November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am not sure that the right hon. Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne) yelling “Answer” from a sedentary position quite constitutes the sort of knightly behaviour that we have come to expect of him.

[Richard Drax (South Dorset) (Con)]

If the courts have banged their metaphorical gavel on our prerogative powers, does my right hon. Friend share my concern that they may do so again regarding, for example, a decision to go to war?

[Mr Davis]

One—but not the only—reason why we are taking this to the Supreme Court is to get an absolutely specific outcome and answer.