Who is Gina Miller?
Gina Miller is the investment manager and philanthropist who is objecting to Brexit. Born in Guyana but raised in Britain, she is an investment manager for SCM Private – the firm she founded in 2009, and is the founder and chairman of Miller Philanthropy, which has made more than £30 million. The campaign, otherwise known as the True and Fair campaign, was set up to expose the rip off culture in the UK investment and pensions industry, and it was this that earned her the handle of 'black-widow-spider'.
Mr and Ms Miller have also been heavily involved with the Margaret Thatcher infirmary at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and have also made donations to many other smaller UK charities.
What Are Gina Miller’s Intentions?
Gina Miller is the lead claimant seeking that Parliament enagages in negotiations to rethink Brexit. She objects to the PM and a few of her ministers using an ancient secretive power called the Royal Prerogative to trigger Article 50, and therefore believes that Parliament as a whole should have to approve the decision to leave the EU.
She said, “We will be making the argument that the correct constitutional process of parliamentary scrunity and approval…otherwise the notice to withdraw from the European Union would be unlawful and subject to legal challenge".
Following a three day hearing, the High Court ruled in favour of her case to give all MPs a vote on whether Article 50 should be triggered.
"It is about any government, any prime minister, in the future being able to take away people's rights without consulting Parliament," she said.
"We cannot have a democracy like that. That isn't a democracy, that is verging on dictatorship.
The judgment, I hope - when it's read by the Government and they contemplate the full judgment - that they will make the wise decision of not appealing but pressing forward and having a proper debate in our sovereign parliament, our mother of parliaments that we are so admired for all over the world.”
The ruling's acceptance of Article 50 negotiation will inevitably delay Mrs May's March 2017 deadline.
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