In UK Supreme Court ruling, a blow to faith in British institutions?
Posted on AllSides September 24th, 2019
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Brexit has become the lens through which all politics is viewed in the United Kingdom, for better or worse. And that may be threatening public confidence in the country’s democratic institutions.
When the United Kingdom’s highest court ended the suspension of Parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday, its landmark ruling barely mentioned Brexit. Indeed, in a strictly judicial sense, the Supreme Court decision was not about Brexit at all.
But the politics of the fitful effort to extract the U.K. from the European Union has heavily shaped how a...
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