Brexit: Johnson makes his move

The reality is, Boris Johnson's move to prorogue parliament will only cut six working days from the schedule.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to pull Britain out of the EU, with our without a deal to preserve some of the ties between them. Photograph by Arno Mikkor courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 2, 2019

Shock! Horror! Johnson prorogues Parliament! End of democracy in Britain! The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, says he was not even consulted, and calls it “a constitutional outrage.” Or, to put it a little less dramatically, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cut the amount of time ...

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