Brexit: John Bercow warns Boris Johnson against disobeying no-deal law
Delivering a lecture in London, Mr Bercow said:"Not obeying the law must surely be a non-starter. Period.""The only form of Brexit which we will have, whenever that might be, will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed," he said.
"One should no more refuse to request an extension of Article 50 because of what one might regard as the noble end of departing from the EU as soon as possible, than one could possibly excuse robbing a bank on the basis that the cash stolen would be donated to a charitable cause immediately afterwards," he said.
On Thursday, Mr Johnson insisted the UK"will be ready" to leave the EU by the current 31 October deadline without an agreement"if we have to"., an assessment of a reasonable worst-case scenario in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Mr Johnson reiterated it was"the worst-case scenario".
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