“The arteries of Parliament are built on this sort of trust,” said Alan Wager, a research associate at The U.K. in a Changing Europe, a research institute. In an effort to quash dissenting voices in Parliament and push his Brexit plan through, Johnson had already asked Queen Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament, a move the Supreme Court deemed unlawful. Despite the earlier law seeking to avert a no-deal departure, that sequence of events would have left Parliament powerless to stop a no-deal Brexit on Oct 31. Among the most important backers of delaying a decision were a group of lawmakers furious at Johnson over the deal. Philip Hammond, a Conservative ex-chancellor, on Saturday compared Johnson’s deal to getting on a bus without knowing where it was going.

Source: bd News24 October 20, 2019 08:15 UTC