good evening Buckingham Palace has
expressed displeasure after the former
Prime Minister David Cameron revealed
that he sought the Queen's help during
the Scottish independence referendum
campaign in a BBC documentary mr.
Cameron said that in 2014 he had asked
if the Queen could intervene because he
was concerned Scotland was going to vote
for independence the Queen later urged
people to think very carefully about the
future conversations between the Queen
and the Prime Minister are meant to be
kept private
but today Mr Cameron denied that he'd
acted improperly is our royal
correspondent Nikolas whichever it is
the relationship at the heart of the
British state between Prime Minister and
monarch the golden role is that
everything that passes between them is
confidential yet today David Cameron has
revealed how he encouraged the Queen to
intervene in the Scottish referendum and
she acquiesced the summer of 2014 the
dominant political issue was whether
Scotland would break away from the Union
as British Prime Minister David Cameron
was the man tasked with saving the Union
it would really be desperately sad to
see it torn apart in early September a
poll predicted that the yes campaign in
favour of Scottish independence was in
the lead now throwing protocol aside mr.
Cameron has told a BBC documentary how
he and royal officials then set to work
conversations I had with my private
secretary and he had with the Queen's
private secretary and I had with the
Queen's private secretary not asking for
anything that would be in any way
improper or unconstitutional but just a
raising of the eyebrow even you know a
quarter of an inch we thought you know
make a difference although the words
were very limited I think that um helped
to put a slightly different perception
on things the Queen's eyebrow-raising
words uttered outside a Balmoral Church
that she hoped people would think very
carefully were made out to be impromptu
in fact they would deliberate and we now
know that mr. Cameron had
and in them this morning on the Today
program he accepted he'd been indiscreet
I think I've don't want to say anything
more about this I'm sure that some
people would think possibly even me that
I've already said perhaps a little bit
too much a few hours later from the
palace came the word displeasure it's
safe to assume that the displeasure
comes from the Queen herself however we
should not assume that David Cameron was
the so instigator of her remarks we know
that the Queen cares deeply about the
unity of the United Kingdom at the time
of the Scottish referendum several
members of the royal family were trying
to find some acceptable way to make
their concerns known Mr Cameron's
intervention was perhaps the
encouragement they were looking for for
the man who led the SNP during the
referendum campaign Mr Cameron's
behavior was completely unacceptable
it's an astonishing thing to do it's an
even more astonishing thing to reveal I
mean has the man got no shame whatsoever
however the current Prime Minister was
being diplomatic not only do I not
comment on conversations that I may have
held with with majesty but I don't
comment on our conversations email with
any anybody else the Queen has now been
drawn into a disputed proning of
parliament and renewed controversy over
the Scottish referendum for the palace
it is double discomfort Nicholas which
all BBC news Buckingham Palace the
former Prime Minister Sir John Major has
accused Boris Johnson of being dishonest
about his reasons for suspending
Parliament speaking through his lawyer
at the Supreme Court so Jones said the
only reason mr. Johnson wanted a longer
than usual suspension of Parliament was
to stop mp's interfering in his brexit
plans the government is arguing that it
is not a matter for the courts at all
our home editor mark eastern reports
from the Supreme Court
Sir John Major Boris Johnson -
Conservative Party leaders - prime
ministers but today the battle over
brexit saw them turned blue on blue amid
accusations of hypocrisy dirty tricks
and
as the Supreme Court began the final day
of its hearing into whether mr. Johnson
unlawfully suspended or per robed
parliament
Sir John Major told the judges in a
written note that Boris Johnson had
ulterior motives and his stated reasons
for ending the parliamentary session
could not be true
Sir John Major's lawyer in court Lord
Garnier accused a Downing Street staffer
of falsely suggesting that John Major
himself as Prime Minister had suspended
Parliament with ulterior motives and
suggested that he had wrote for it was a
suggestion of mudslinging there was
nothing base and political about the
decision to ask the Queen to shut
Parliament down early ahead of the
election in 1997 in the cabinet at the
time Michel now Lord Hesseltine has
dismissed the idea as nonsense there is
recent evidence of the Dunning Street
press office having been misleading
in its announcements Lord gaya also
referred to a text sent to the BBC by a
Downing Street source which said the
claim that the government's considering
per oging parliament in September in
order to stop mp's debating brexit is
entirely false it later emerged that
ministers had discussed asking the Queen
to suspend the session although number
10 maintains it wasn't to close down
discussion on brexit we are not
concerned with when and how on what
terms United Kingdom leaves the European
Union stressing their discussions have
nothing to do with wrecks it the
justices today received an answer to
their own question to number tally
what what government do if they lost the
case now if the Supreme Court says the
suspension of Parliament was unlawful
Downing Street are considering three
options depending on the exact reasons
one they don't need to do anything at
all to they bring back Parliament's but
they bring forward the Queen's Speech or
three they immediately go back to the
Queen again and ask her to suspend
Parliament again but this time lawfully
this afternoon the government lawyer
Lord Kean argued it should never get
that far anyway because the judges have
no right to rule on the matter the
length of each session followed and the
frequency between sessions is regulated
by Constitutional Convention and not
remain cafe Nagina Millers lawyer argued
the outcome should be the immediate
recall of MPs does the Prime Minister
have to do anything to ensure that part
of it meet next week well it may be it
may be that's the Speaker of the House
of Commons and the Lord speaker in the
House of Lords will take action to
ensure the Parliament reopens as soon as
possible next week's matter to them and
then Parliament can debate if they
follow past practice the justices will
come together in the next few days and
each in turn will give their view
starting with the newest member of the
Supreme Court and finishing with the
president lady Hale with a decision
early next week it is as she said a
serious and difficult question of law
and for the world outside the courtroom
a question with profound implications
for the great institutions of state for
our democracy and for the citizens of a
troubled Kingdom mark Easton BBC News
the Supreme Court meanwhile Boris
Johnson said today that some progress is
being made with brexit negotiations in
Brussels the president of the European
Commission jean-claude Juncker has
tonight said he believed a deal between
the two sides could be reached before
October the 31st of all our Europe
educator Adler is in Brussels for us
tonight so is there some movement are
they unlocking this at last well so if
you know there's a lot of noise about
briefings here there and everywhere from
number 10 from EU leaders often really
contradictory as to how much progress is
really being made in talks and there's a
lot of movement the brexit Secretary's
zooming around Europe today Madrid
tomorrow Brussels the Prime Minister
jets off to New York next week to the UN
General General Assembly where he'll sit
down with Emmanuel macron and Angela
Merkel but frankly Sophie there's a lot
of
a lot of fury a lot of spin but not much
is really changing on the ground that
Irish back shot remains the sticking
points are finding a new brexit deal
with the EU in the UK still pretty far
apart as to what could and should be
done but on the positive side EU leaders
are as keen as Boris Johnson if at all
humanly possible to find a deal next
month
no.1 EU side I speak to off the record
thinks it's possible to find that magic
solution by mid-october that EU leaders
summit here in Brussels as the Prime
Minister wants but with the clock
ticking down to that 31st of October
deadline if there's new bricks at no new
brekford extension then the wisdom here
is in that last week or so the pressure
could be on the two sides to finally
roll up their sleeves sit down together
put the posturing to one side and say
now let's really get down to work
you