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Iam not i am not asking this court to say whether the Prime Ministers assessment is correct or incorrect. The relevance is that they are strong evidence to be added to the material referred to by the inner house as to the Prime Ministers motive in trying to close parliament for five weeks during this negotiating period. The other point i want to make on the facts is that it is, we say, a remarkable feature of these proceedings that the Prime Minister has not made a witness statement explaining why he decided to advise her majesty to Prorogue Parliament for a period as long as five weeks. And that is even though we made very clear in commencing these proceedings that an important pa rt of these proceedings that an important part of our case is that the Prime Ministers advice to her majesty was motivated, or at least strongly influenced, by the Prime Ministers desire to prevent the risk, as he saw it, of parliament damaging government policy. And we set that out in our statement of facts

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