We've had parliamentary sovereignty all along Richard. Remember when they took control of the order papers and then they had lots of meaningful and indicative votes?
They couldn't agree whether to order pie, chips or mushy peas. They need another 4 days to figure it out after 3 years of squabbling?
Yeah, right.
I think what you have raised John is the effectiveness of parliamentary sovereignty, which is a very different point to the one that I made in my original post.
It seems to me that leading Brexiteers were originally clamouring for parliamentary sovereignty until of course they found that it was not working for them. So now they have come up with a ruse to get round it.
It may be a very clever ruse and it may work for them. However, such actions have other consequences. One being that actions like this only fuel the belief that the Prime Minister and some of cabinet are untrustworthy and cannot be relied upon to tell the truth. When a government gains that sort of reputation it is very difficult to lose that tag
Richard
