Gina Miller

[badlydrawnperson]

I can't help wondering if we'd have had this impasse if it hadn't been for the Court Action. I am not criticising or praising her, just wondering.

I thought her court action was about getting parliamentary agreement in order to trigger article 50. I thought the need for a 'meaningful vote' in order to pass the withdrawal agreement was due to the Grieve amendment.

Indeed - but if Teresa May had been able to trigger article 50 without needing a parliamentary vote, this wouldn't have happened.

I am not saying she (TM) should have been able to trigger A50 - just making an observation about how things might have been different.

But the Grieve amendment had nothing to do with the triggering of article 50. It was an amendment to the European Withdrawal Act, which had to be passed in order to repeal the European Communities Act 1972. So it would have happened regardless of whether Gina Miller brought her court case or not.

So in answer to your question, yes we'd still have had this impasse if Gina Miller hadn't brought her case.