David Greene, one of the lead attorneys in a lawsuit challenging the U.K. prime minister’s right to start the country’s withdrawal from the European Union has dismissed the government’s suggestion that the process will now be subject to a parliamentary vote as “a sop to the judges.”

Speaking in London’s High Court yesterday, government lawyer James Eadie QC said it was “very likely” that politicians would now be able to vote on the Brexit process.

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