WEGET HERE?

HERE are the key events in the build-up up to the Supreme Court’s ruling:

JULY 22: It emerges that a cross-party group of MPs and peers plans legal action in Scotland to prevent Parliament being closed down in the run-up to Brexit on October 31.

JULY 23: Boris Johnson wins the Tory leadership race and becomes Prime Minister the following day.

AUGUST 28: The PM announces his intention to ask the Queen to suspend Parliament for five weeks. The Queen formally approves his request the same day. Those bringing the Scottish legal action ask the Court of Session for an interim interdict to block the prorogation. AUGUST 29: Campaigner Gina Miller launches legal action against Johnson at the High Court in London. Her case is joined by former prime minister Sir John Major, Shadow Attorney General Baroness Chakrabarti and the Welsh and Scottish governments.

AUGUST 30: A judge in Scotland refuses the interim interdict but brings forward the full hearing to September 3.

SEPTEMBER 4: The Court of Session rejects the bid to have the prorogation declared unlawful.

SEPTEMBER 5: The High Court in London hears Miller’s case against the prorogation. Meanwhile in Edinburgh, three judges at the Inner House of the Court of Session begin hearing an appeal on the earlier ruling.

SEPTEMBER 6: Miller’s case is rejected by the High Court. She vows to continue her legal fight at the Supreme Court.

SEPTEMBER 11: The Inner House of the Court of Session rules that Johnson’s prorogation move was unlawful as it had the intention of “stymieing” Parliament.

SEPTEMBER 17: A three-day hearing at the Supreme Court in London begins.

SEPTEMBER 24: Lady Hale, president of the Supreme Court, says the 11 justices ruled unanimously that Johnson’s advice to the Queen to suspend Parliament was unlawful. Commons Speaker John Bercow announces that Parliament will resume at 11.30am today.