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Politics Live – readers' edition: Friday 3 February

Theresa May arriving at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta, Malta, this morning for an EU summit.
Theresa May arriving at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta, Malta, this morning for an EU summit. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

If you’ve not seen it already, the latest installment of the Anywhere But Westminster video series is very worthy of your time.

If eastern Europeans leave Britain after Brexit, what happens?

That fresh Brexit legal challenge? Blocked by the high court.

Our story begins:

A fresh legal challenge to the government’s plans for leaving the European Union has been blocked by the high court.

It was brought by campaigners arguing that parliament must separately legislate to remove the UK from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the single market.

After months of resisting – and ultimately losing – a series of courtroom battles over ministers’ use of their executive powers to trigger article 50 and leave the EU, government lawyers were forced to launch a renewed defence of the royal prerogative in the high court in London.

Writing in a blog post for the FT last November, law and policy commentator David Allen Green laid out why he felt the Article 127 challenge was unlikely to succeed.

Updated

Some topics of discussion from below the line.

  • There is great interest in the home of Paul Nuttall, the Ukip leader who is the party’s candidate for the Stoke byelection. Our story is here:
  • Will we see Ed Miliband return to frontline politics? Jeremy Corbyn’s team would dearly like him to, according to PoliticsHome.

I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.

Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat others with respect and don’t resort to abuse. Guardian comment pages are supposed to be a haven from the Twitter/social media rant-orama, not an extension of it.

You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.

And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.

  • The UK will remain a “reliable” partner for the EU in helping to tackle the Mediterranean migration crisis even after Brexit, Theresa May is to tell her fellow European leaders at a summit in Malta on Friday.
  • The government’s Brexit strategy faces a fresh legal challenge in the high court on Friday when campaigners argue that parliament must separately legislate to remove the UK from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the single market.
  • Jeremy Corbyn’s team is braced for a fresh rebellion next week when MPs vote again on article 50, as tensions within Labour intensify over the leadership’s handling of Brexit.
  • David Davis failed to placate Conservative rebels concerned about the status of European Union migrants and other Brexit details, despite publishing a 77-page white paper setting out the government’s plans for leaving the EU.
  • Police are investigating a complaint about Paul Nuttall’s bid to become an MP in Stoke-on-Trent after his nomination papers declared his address as a house where he was not yet resident.

On Thursday nights local council byelections take place. There were three last night. Britain Elects has the results.

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