What the papers say: The Brexit blockers' 'betrayal of democracy'

The High Court’s ruling that Parliament should have the final say on pulling the Article 50 trigger has not gone down well in today’s papers.

‘Enemies of the people’ screams the front page of the Daily Mail alongside a picture of the judges who made yesterday’s decision. If its headline didn’t make its view clear enough, there’s little room for interpretation in its editorial: the court’s decision was ‘an outrageous betrayal of democracy’, the paper says. The Mail suggests the ruling isn’t a one-off but forms part of a pattern where the courts have consistently sided with the Europe ‘against the interests of the British people’. But, the paper says, this latest stunt is the most dangerous yet. The paper’s editorial says the motives of those who brought the case were clearly about frustrating the Brexit process. And the Mail warns that ‘this judgment plays with fire, fanning the feeling — not just in Britain and Europe, but also among Donald Trump’s supporters in America — that western public life is becoming a conspiracy of tightly knit, self-serving Establishment elites against the public.