Former attorney general Dominic Grieve echoes the warning, accusing the PM of acting like a 'spoilt child having a tantrum'.
The former director of public prosecutions has told Sky News that Boris Johnson could go to prison if he refuses to delay Brexit in the face of court action.
The prime minister has said he will not agree an extension, despite parliament passing a law forcing him to do so. Lord MacDonald, who held the senior prosecutor post between 2003 and 2008, said legal action would mean a court ordering that"the law should be followed"."A refusal in the face of that would amount to contempt of court which could find that person in prison", he said.
The cross-bench peer said this was"not an extreme outcome" as it was"convention" that individuals who refuse to"purge their contempt" are sent to prison.However it is also possible that a court could demand another figure in government authorises the delay. Dominic Grieve, an MP expelled from the Conservatives this week for backing an anti-no-deal law and former attorney general, told Sky News that Mr Johnson was acting like a"spoilt child having a tantrum".
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