The SNP reacted to the “disappointment” of part of the Supreme Court judgement by threatening Theresa May with Parliamentary trench warfare.
The 11 justices ruled that the devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff did not have to approve the triggering of the Article 50 exit clause.
An opposite ruling would have plunged the United Kingdom into a full-blown constitutional crisis and potentially sunk the Prime Minister’s exit timetable.
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Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP’s first minister, has already vowed that the Holyrood parliament will stage its own vote on Article 50 – as it presses for Scotland to stay in the single market.
Today, the SNP said it would table no fewer than 50 “serious and substantive” amendments to the Article 50 legislation which Ms May must now bring forward.
They will include that the Government must get the agreement of the joint ministerial committee (JMC), which brings together the devolved administrations and Westminster.
Alex Salmond, the SNP’s international affairs spokesman, said: “The Prime Minister and her hard Brexit brigade must treat devolved administrations as equal partners - as indeed she promised to do.”
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