Anti-Brexit campaigners on Monday failed to secure a court ruling forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek an extension if no deal is reached about Britain’s departure from the European Union.
The case was brought to try to compel Johnson to comply with legislation requiring him to ask Brussels for more time if no agreement was reached before the end-of-month Brexit deadline.
But judge Lord Pentland told Scotland’s highest civil court, the Court of Session in Edinburgh, the government had already made “unequivocal assurances” it would abide by the law. There was “no doubt” Johnson and the government accepted the need to comply and they intended to do so, the judge said in his ruling.