WATCH: Ici Londres – This crisis is the result not of Brexit but the absence of Brexit, says Hannan
“Sooner or later there will have to be a general election, and then there will be a reckoning.”
“Sooner or later there will have to be a general election, and then there will be a reckoning.”
“They could vote no confidence in the Government at any time, but they are too cowardly to act now.”
He says that the Government will respect the ruling, and “that there’s a good case for getting on with a Queen’s Speech anyway”.
The House will sit at 11.30 tomorrow morning, but there will be no Prime Minister’s Questions.
The Labour Leader says that the Prime Minister should “consider his position…and have an election to elect a Government that respects democracy.”
“The Inner House went further and declared that any prorogation resulting from it was null and of no effect.”
“We have to move on. We have to find a way forward. And there’s now only one way. ‘Put it to the people’.”
The Shadow Foreign Secretary receives a standing ovation as she urges a harder anti-Brexit stance for Labour.
The Opposition set out plans to create a National Care Service, making such services free at the point of use in England.
He explains why he believes Gyimah, his former PPS, and others are making a mistake in switching to the Liberal Democrats.
“Of course we’ll respect whatever the legal ruling from the Supreme Court is…there are different permutations to what the court may or may not decide.”
The Labour leader concedes he was aware of “discussions going on”, but not specifically of Friday’s NEC motion.
He also appears to describe the idea as “a typical British lie”.
The former Prime Minister adds that “breaking the law is not a good idea”.
He adds that Johnson has reiterated that the United Kingdom will leave the EU on October 31st “avec ou sans accord”, despite Benn’s Act.