The British Parliament descended into a state of near-farce this week.

It started with a U.K. Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law by ordering Parliament to be suspended for six weeks. Johnson, the court decided, had unjustly sought to prevent parliamentary action against his plans to withdraw Britain from the European Union by Oct. 31.

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