Gina Miller was accused of trying to conceal the genuine motive behind her attempts to take Brexit to court, in a tense clash on ITV‘s Loose Women. The anti-Brexit campaigner was confronted with the claim that she was “clearly a Remainer”. Loose Women panellist Jane Moore said that her Remainer allegiances made her court battles over Brexit partisan.
Ms Miller was confronted with her previous claim that the result of the 2016 referendum had made her “physically sick”.
Moore told the lawyer and campaigner: “There are so many things with Parliament that you could have gone to court over.
“John Major prorogued Parliament, so on, so on. So, why this? The argument with you, is that when the Brexit vote came through, it made you feel physically sick.
“So, everyone goes you’re clearly a Remainer, and you’re trying to stop the Brexit vote.”
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Ms Miller responded: “I didn’t stop the Brexit vote, because the MPs voted to pass Article 50 – even though I wish they had debated it first.”
The investment manager shot to fame in 2016 for ensuring MPs had a vote on triggering Article 50.
She took the Govenrment to court to force them to give MPs a vote on invoking Article 50 and triggering the Brexit process.
She told ITV: “It is what it says in the law. All the other member-states would say, you did that illegally. We won’t trade with you now, we won’t deal with you.”
Jane Moore interrupted: “But that wouldn’t happen would it? Germany would never say, we are not going to sell you cars?”
Moore added: “You have got 17.4 million who knew exactly what they voted for, who knew what leave meant.
“Three and a half years later, we have politicians bickering over the finer points.”
Ms Miller also responded to the news that Jeremy Corbyn had decided to back an early election.
Mr Corbyn told reporters that he was “totally determined” to win it after deciding that the threat of a no deal Brexit was “off the table”.
When the news broke during Loose Women, Ms Miller instantly responded: “Finally!”
In September, Ms Miller won a landmark Supreme Court case establishing that Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was unlawful.
