Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

It used to be that there were very few economists actually involved in making the world economic

policies. We examined a new book that shows how they rose to prominence and how they

were overconfident and underprepared when they got there. And we spend time with some

conbanguists in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rapidly growing religious sect

has quite a preoccupation with the end of days, but its members seem to be rather cheerfully

embracing it.

It was yet another stunning twist in the Brexit story. Yesterday an unprecedented ruling

by Britain's highest court dealt a crushing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Supreme

Court unanimously ruled that Mr. Johnson acted illegally when he suspended or pro-rogged

parliament for five weeks.

The court is bound to conclude therefore that the decision to advise her majesty to

pro-road parliament was unlawful, because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing

the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable

justification.

The suspension sparked enormous uproar in August. MPs on all sides were pretty angry

about this because they suspected that the reason he was sending them home was to avoid

further scrutiny of his plans for Brexit.

John Pete is our Brexit editor. And MPs since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister have been

suspicious that what he wants to do is engineer a British departure from the European Union

without further discussion in parliament and probably without a deal at the end of October.

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