UK Prime Minister Theresa May is coming under pressure to scarp an appeal against a court ruling, requiring lawmakers to approve of the process to start Brexit.
Three top members of May’s Conservative Party warned her Saturday that triggering the Article 50 of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, which would officially start the exit from the bloc, could be delayed due to a Supreme Court appeal on Friday, AFP reported.
According to the court ruling, Scotland and Wales are allowed to intervene in the appeal.
The move threw a further hurdle in the way of May’s hopes of a smooth Brexit.
Oliver Letwin, former head of the government’s Brexit preparations, former law officer Edward Garnier and former attorney general Dominic Grieve all spoke out in regard to the ruling.
May’s government should come up with a “fast and tightly timetabled and constrained bill” to parliament, avoiding “any risk of the Supreme Court deciding to accord the devolved…