Brexit: Still time to block no-deal on 31 October, senior Tory rebel says
"The problem there is it requires the sitting prime minister to resign, and because it is untested territory we don't know how that might work," she said.
And Ms Haddon said that, even if Mr Johnson lost a vote of no confidence and did call a general election, he was"perfectly able, constitutionally" to schedule it for after the Brexit deadline.Confused by Brexit jargon? Reality Check unpacks the basics. "We still don't know if there is something they could try involving an emergency debate," she said,"because the Speaker has previously implied that he thinks there's more scope there in terms of what Parliament can do, but again this is completely untested and falls on the Speaker reinterpreting previous parliamentary practice in a new way."
"There will be opportunities for us when Parliament returns [from summer recess] in September to stop no-deal," he told Sky.
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