Court rejects latest request to force PM to ask for Brexit extension
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from World news | The Guardian on (#4S07F)
Scottish court rejects request to order Boris Johnson to seek extension if he cannot get deal passed by MPs
Anti-Brexit campaigners have failed in an attempt to force Boris Johnson to ask for an extension to article 50 if he is unable to get a Brexit deal through parliament.
Lord Pentland, sitting in the court of session in Edinburgh, rejected their request for a court order instructing the prime minister to seek an extension if he cannot get a deal passed by the Commons this month.
Pentland said he had to take at face value pledges made by the UK government on Friday that Johnson would write the letter seeking an extension on 19 October as required under the so-called Benn act. Pentland said those assurances were unequivocal.
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