'Brexit' ruling reveals cracks in Britain's centuries-old institutions

There is still an outside chance that Parliament will reassert control of Brexit talks, said Simon Tilford, a Britain and Europe specialist at the Centre for European Reform in London. "What this does is it opens the way for much greater parliamentary scrutiny of the whole process," he said. "But we’re only going to get this if the Labour Party is willing to push back. That is not likely, but not impossible."

"It opens up the way for a kind of democratization of what is happening, for Parliament to hold the government to account," he added. "So far we had a vote to leave the EU, but it certainly wasn’t a vote to take Britain out of the single market, out of the customs union and to make people poorer."