We look at how the nation’s media covered the government being told by the supreme court that it could not leave the EU without parliamentary approval
In fact, the Brexit-supporting titles do not repeat the front page outrage with which they greeted the original high court ruling.
Despite the decision, which confirmed that prime minister Theresa May must gain parliament’s consent to trigger an exit from the European Union, they choose to see it in positive terms.
Except, of course, the Daily Mail. It now turns its attention to MPs in the belief that a number of them are plotting to thwart Brexit. And it also seeks to pour scorn on Gina Miller, the woman who brought the case against the government.
The Daily Telegraph’s front page, while registering the fact that opposition parties will seek to thwart May’s plans, is headlined “There can be no turning back”.
In the FT’s view, the decision was “the most significant constitutional judgment for a generation” and “a triumph for Britain’s judicial system and the supreme court”.
Noting that “the case has also been marked by intemperate and demagogic attacks on the judiciary” it reminded its readers of the Daily Mail’s “enemies of the people” headline.
It commented sharply: “This argument is so grotesquely at odds with the facts and with the law that only a profound cynic, or a great fool, would profess it.
“Many people campaigned in good faith for Britain to leave the EU so that parliamentary sovereignty could be revitalised and important decisions about Britain’s future could be brought closer to British voters. This is what the supreme court ruling has done.”
The i newspaper’s main story, like the FT’s, reports that the government will aim to pick themselves up quickly from this defeat.
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