Boris Johnson would be acting like a 'bank robber' if he refuses to delay Brexit to avoid no-deal, John Bercow has said. Read more here:
Boris Johnson would be acting like a"bank robber" if he refuses to delay Brexit to avoid no-deal, John Bercow has said.
The outgoing Commons Speaker gave a thinly worded warning to the prime minister that he could only take Britain out of the EU next month with MPs' consent. He added claims by some legal campaigners that Mr Johnson would try not to obey the law were a"non-starter, period". "It is astonishing that anyone has even entertained the notion," Mr Bercow claimed, in his first public comments since the governmentMr Johnson has said he would rather be"dead in ditch" than comply with the law passed by opposition MPs and 21 Tory rebels forcing him to try to delay Brexit to avoid no-deal.
Mr Bercow hit back at the suggestion on Thursday, saying:"One should no more refuse to request an extension to 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. We should not be in this linguistic territory.
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