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		</div><p>Investment fund manager Gina Miller came to prominence three years ago as the woman who led the campaign against triggering Brexit without Parliamentary approval.</p>
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<p>In 2016, the campaigner launched a legal challenge to then- British prime minister Theresa May’s decision to use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50, starting a two-year countdown to the UK’s departure from the EU.</p>
<p>But the High Court ruled the prime minister did not have the power to trigger Article 50 without the authority of Parliament, a ruling ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court in January 2017.</p>
<p>Ms Miller’s UK High Court victory resulted in her being subjected to online rape and death threats at the time.</p>
<p>Speaking back in 2016, Ms Miller said she would not let people “bring her down”, adding that opponents had previously nicknamed her “the black widow spider”.</p>
<p>In 2017, Rhodri Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids, was jailed for 12 weeks after writing a number of racially and abusive posts on Facebook towards Ms Miller days after her High Court challenge.</p>
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<p>Speaking to the BBC, Ms Miller said she had to take measures to “protect herself” and police concluded that employing security would be “sensible” during the subsequent Supreme Court hearing.</p>
<p>Despite her earlier success, Ms Miller lost a High Court case in September this year challenging the legality of Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspending parliament.</p>
<p>Giving their reasons for rejecting the case, leading judges said the decision to prorogue Parliament was “purely political” and therefore not capable of challenge in the courts.</p>
<figure id="attachment_140615" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-140615" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-140615" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4CDF685C-0209-4E5B-81A9-3D2ABBFAA983.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="410" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-140615" class="wp-caption-text">In 2016, Gina Miller challenged the Government over its power to trigger Article 50 without the authority of Parliament</figcaption></figure>
<p>In an interview with Vogue, Ms Miller, 54, said she was born in Guyana in South America.</p>
<p>Her father, who she described as an activist for social justice, worked as an attorney general.</p>
<p>She said she left Guyana at a young age to attend an all-girls school in Eastbourne, Sussex, with her brother, leaving her parents behind.</p>
<p>She recalled working in hotels as a chambermaid while her brother did paper rounds.</p>
<p>“Whilst we missed our parents dreadfully, and it was difficult juggling our home lives with homework and school, it made us who we are today,” she said.</p>
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<p>After finishing school, she studied law at the University of East London, but did not finish the course.</p>
<p>She later went on to study marketing at the University of North London, enrolling as a single parent.</p>
<p>Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2017, she said her daughter, then aged 28, had serious learning difficulties, with a reading age of six and a writing age of four.</p>
<p>Ms Miller is the co-founder of the wealth management firm SCM Direct, as well as the True and Fair foundation charity.</p>
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