THE Parliamentary battle of our age – and of many ages – has begun.
Boris Johnson will claim this is a suspension of Parliament for a legitimate purpose, namely to pave the way for his government’s new programme of legislation. But the length of prorogation or suspension fuels widespread concerns about how little time MPs would have to either attempt to legislate to force the PM to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit or to organise themselves sufficiently to throw out Johnson as PM via a vote of no confidence.
The bloodiness of this battle is not to be underestimated. A No 10 source told me: “If MPs pass a vote of no confidence next week, then we won’t recommend any alternative government, we’ll dissolve Parliament and have an election between November 1 and 5 – and that means no time for legislation”.
Against that backdrop, the decision to announce big increases in spending on health, police and schools in a spending review next Wednesday looks like a pre-election giveaway.
And Johnson and his senior aide Dominic Cummings have astutely (some might say cynically) framed the giveaway as a spending review rather than a Budget, so there will be no new forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility of the impact on our prosperity of a no-deal Brexit.
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See Also:
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(4) Panic stations! Remainers dealt huge blow over Boris block – ‘Not unlawful!’
(5) Boris Johnson’s Brexit battle: How PM won the day to leave stunned Remainers outraged
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