GOVERNMENT’S top lawyer has said there are no plans to revoke Article 50.

It followed a landmark ruling by the European Courts of Justice that the UK Government could cancel Brexit without needing the sign-off from the European Union’s other 27 members.

Reversing last year’s triggering of Article 50, the formal mechanism by which the UK announced its intention to leave the EU, would not affect the terms of the UK’s membership in the future, the ECJ ruled.

Last week, the ECJ’s advocate general said the UK should be allowed to change its mind over Brexit. But the statement was not legally binding, until Monday’s decision on a case brought by the Good Law Project, pro-Remain MPs and Scottish politicians.

But Robert Buckland, MP for South Swindon and the Solicitor General, said: “The government will not be revoking Article 50.”

Jo Maugham QC, director of the Good Law Project, called the ECJ ruling “the most important case in modern domestic legal history".

“It is up to MPs to remember what they came into politics for and find the moral courage to put the country’s interests before private ambition," he added.

Brexiteer Jacob Rees Mogg told LBC: "I think this government would find it very difficult to remain the government if it went away from what it said in its manifesto and the referendum result."