Any conservative, whether Tory or not, should approve of the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court. This is not a case of judges interfering in politics or making up the law. On the contrary, the eleven sitting members of the Court in delivering their judgment couched in admirably lucid prose declared what the law is and has long been. It is significant that at the outset of their judgment they harked back to the Seventeenth Century, the century of fierce struggles between Crown and Parliament, and said: “As long ago as 1611, the Court held that ‘the King hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him’.” For the King then, read the Government today. True conservatives should, as I say, applaud this statement. I cannot doubt that Enoch Powell would have done so…