https://www.theguardian.com/politics/201...s-urge-may
Quote:Senior Tories have urged Theresa May to scrap the government appeal against a high court ruling which states that parliament must vote on leaving the EU.
Oliver Letwin, the former head of the government’s Brexit preparations, has called for the prime minister to abandon the supreme court appeal over the decision on article 50, the mechanism that triggers exit negotiations.
The former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former solicitor-general Sir Edward Garnier also said May should avoid taking the case to the highest court in the UK.
Instead the Conservatives, who all supported the remain campaign, said they wanted the process to start as soon as possible with a bill in parliament.
Garnier told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday: “That way you avoid an unnecessary legal row, you avoid a lot of unnecessary expense, but you also avoid an opportunity for ill-motivated people to attack the judiciary, to misconstrue the motives of both parties to the lawsuit, and you provide certainty.”