Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try again to get his Brexit deal passed by par...
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try again to get his Brexit deal passed by parliament on Monday after lawmakers decided to delay their agreement, a humiliating blow for a leader who has staked his reputation on leaving on Oct. 31.
But the speaker of the House, John Bercow, said he would rule whether that would be allowed after several lawmakers said it would break with parliamentary convention that the same question cannot be put twice during the same session.“I have been blindsided on this matter, as others have been,” Bercow told parliament after Rees-Mogg’s announcement.
Opposition lawmakers said by writing two letters, Johnson had broken his government’s pledge to the court not to frustrate the legislation. The court, has not yet ruled on the matter and was waiting to do so pending developments up to Oct. 19. But it said this month that government lawyers had given formal legal statements - averments - that he would abide by the Benn Act and it would be a serious matter if he did not.Johnson told parliament that “next week the government will introduce the legislation needed for us to leave the EU with our new deal on October 31”.
Johnson has ruled out a customs union and, on Monday, a lawmaker from the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, which has propped up the government, said it would not support such a proposal.
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