One remembers the disgraceful Daily Mail front-page ‘Enemies of the People’ article in November 2016 that greeted the Divisional Court’s decision in the first great case brought by Gina Miller (R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5, [2017] All ER (D) 70 (Jan)). The three ‘out of touch judges’—the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Sales—were said to have ‘declared war on democracy’ for deciding that Parliament’s consent was required for triggering Art 50.
It seemed worth looking at the attitude of the press to the judges on the morning after the 11-0 decision that the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful (R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister; Cherry and ors v Advocate General for Scotland [2019] UKSC 41, [2019] All ER (D) 61 (Sep).
The Daily Mail led the front page with a huge headline: ‘Boris blasts: who runs Britain?’.
