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12 - 18 September 2019
BREXIT BRIEF
BREXIT EXTRA
Shut down halts Brexit debate THE suspension of Parliament this week has put business on hold while the Government seeks to avoid delaying Brexit. On Monday Parliament was prorogued until October 14 after the Queen approved the suspension requested by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
But not before legislation banning a no-deal Brexit received Royal Assent. Downing Street is now consulting lawyers to find a way to defy MPs who last week passed a
Impeach PM call CALLS have been made for the Prime Minister to be impeached if he pursues a no-deal Brexit. The Welsh party Plaid Cymru has made the call to prevent Boris Johnson by-passing the vote by Parliament to prevent the UK leaving Europe without a deal. A UK Prime Minister has never been successfully impeached, but Mr Johnson was among those who called for Tony Blair to be impeached in 2004. Impeachment would allow Parliament to bring a Prime Minister to trial for high treason if he refuses to abide by the will of Parliament. The impeachment proposal was put forward by Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts. She said: “Boris Johnson has already driven a bulldozer through the constitution so no longer are ideas like impeachment farfetched.”
ILLEGAL: Prime Minister seeks legal loophole.
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law making it illegal for the Prime Minister to end talks with Brussels without a deal. Boris Johnson has said he would rather be ‘dead in a ditch’ than plead for an extension to the October 31 deadline. Although the Prime Minister insists he does not want to leave without a deal and is convinced he can reach an agreement, he has pledged to leave the EU ‘come what may.’ Mr Johnson attempted once again to call a snap General Election, but the opposition remained firm in its demands that the law be passed first. At the same time, Mr Johnson was meeting with the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in a bid to break the ‘back stop’ deadlock. The Taoiseach invited Boris Johnson for talks for the first time since he took the Downing Street job. Mr Vardakar warned the UK Prime Minister that there was ‘no such thing’ as a clean break with the EU, but Mr Johnson said a no-deal would be a failure that the Irish Government would bear responsibility for as well as the British Government. The back stop is a mechanism to avoid a hard Irish border. Mr Johnson has said he will not sign a deal that includes the back stop, but will never introduce checks at the Northern Ireland border.
Help me win NIGEL FARAGE and his Brexit Party is calling on Conservatives to stand down in Labour strongholds to give his candidates a better chance of success. In return, Mr Farage has offered to campaign on behalf of pro-Brexit Tories and not contest seats. The Tories say they don’t need an electoral alliance.
No new plan AMBER RUDD who resigned from the cabinet over Brexit says the government has no alternative to a no-deal Brexit. She told the BBC she had seen ‘very little evidence’ that a new agreement was being sought. She said that when she asked Number 10 for details of its strategy to strike a deal, she received a one-page summary in return.
Tory poll doubts POLLS indicate that Boris Johnson would do worse at a General Election than Theresa May. It’s predicted that the Tories will lose seats in London, the south west, and in Scotland.