Queen backs Johnson's ploy to run down the clock on Brexit resistance | NickdMiller
Boris Johnson’s government has pressed ahead with a combination of bold political calculation and ancient protocol, to cement its plan to "prorogue" or suspend parliament for five crucial weeks ahead of Brexit.
Anti-Brexit supporters take part in a protest in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London.On Wednesday morning Johnson announced that parliament would be “prorogued” or suspended from Monday September 9 until October 14, the longest suspension of British legislature since the Second World War, in order to move on with his government’s “exciting agenda”.
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow both called the prorogation plan a “constitutional outrage”. The European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, said “taking back control has never looked so sinister”.
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