Surely this means they can’t stop Brexit now

LAST night’s resounding 372 Commons majority calling on ministers to trigger Brexit before the end of March must surely put the matter beyond doubt.

Indeed, it would be perverse in the extreme if the Supreme Court were now to rule that the timing of withdrawal must go back to Parliament, giving die-hard Remain MPs and unelected peers a chance to sabotage a policy backed by 17.4million voters.

As the court’s president Lord Neuberger put it before last night’s vote, with studied understatement: ‘It would be a bit surprising if the Referendum Act and referendum had no effect in law.’

Acutely, he added that the average person would think it ‘a bit odd’ if his court ruled that an Act of Parliament was needed to trigger Brexit, after both Houses had ceded their authority to the people. Fingers crossed, his fellow judges may yet come to the same conclusion.

Indeed, the real mystery is how 89 MPs had the appalling arrogance to dismiss the public’s verdict by voting against the Government last night.

True, with their pretensions to independence, it’s no surprise that 51 Nationalist MPs refused to respect UK voters’ demand for Brexit in a UK-wide referendum.

But how can they and the rest of the 89 look the electorate in the eye after delivering such an insult to democracy?

Significantly, they include five of the eight Liberal Democrats. Since there is clearly nothing remotely liberal or democratic about them, isn’t it high time they changed their name?