Labour 'highly likely' to back plan to delay Brexit Cabinet ministers round on Remain colleagues George Osborne compares no deal to Russian roulette Philip Johnston: The day six years ago when David Cameron fired the Brexit starting gun Alan Tovey: It's hard to blame Dyson for its Singapore move Sign up: Brexit Whatsapp updates and all-new Brexit Bulletin Jacob Rees-Mogg has told Theresa May she must use the nuclear option of ending the parliamentary session early if a bid by MPs to delay Brexit looks likely to succeed. The leading Brexiteer said the Prime Minister should prorogue Parliament if a plan being led by Yvette Cooper, the Labour MP, to extend Article 50 gets close to becoming... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events Cancel any time Free for 30 days then only £2 per week Try Premium Access one Premium article per week … [Read more...] about Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Theresa May to shut down Parliament if MPs try to thwart Brexit
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Is Jacob Rees-Mogg starting to panic that ‘Europhile kamikaze MPs’ could box him in?
Asa Bennett Follow 23 January 2019 • 5:30pm One might have wondered if Tory Brexiteers were softening after Nadine Dorries suggested on Monday night that fellow Brexiteers could end up voting for Theresa May’s deal to save it from “these Europhile kamikaze MPs”. But Jacob Rees-Mogg sought to knock such an idea on the head today, declaring at a Eurosceptic gathering that while he hoped for “reformation of this deal to make it more acceptable”, he could not vote for it “as long as the backstop is there”. Given that Theresa May has repeatedly warned that “there’s no deal without the backstop”, its disappearance looks nigh-on impossible. And if he means exactly what he says, that suggests he and his like-minded Eurosceptics would not be satisfied... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events … [Read more...] about Is Jacob Rees-Mogg starting to panic that ‘Europhile kamikaze MPs’ could box him in?
Sketch: Take back control now means Jacob Rees-Mogg telling the Queen to shut down parliament
Britain has been enjoying another day bang on the Tory, a word which now only makes sense not as a political ideology but as a synthetic drug that may yet achieve Class A status – but not before it’s ruined everyone’s lives. The Lib Dems thought they could handle it, took one hit and never recovered. By 2015, the country itself hadn’t had a go on the pure stuff for almost two decades. Now we walk jagged and dazed about the world like a spice addict in a 24 hour bus garage. And no one is pushing the stuff harder than Jacob Rees-Mogg, who on Wednesday afternoon addressed a large meeting of the “Bruges Group”, which describes itself as a “Eurosceptic think tank” but is in fact a care in the community project for people who last paid to use the bus in the pre-decimalisation era. Join Independent Minds For exclusive articles, events and an advertising-free read for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Get … [Read more...] about Sketch: Take back control now means Jacob Rees-Mogg telling the Queen to shut down parliament
Brexit latest news: Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Theresa May to shut down Parliament if MPs try to thwart Brexit
23 January 2019 • 3:40pm Labour 'highly likely' to back plan to delay Brexit Cabinet ministers round on Remain colleagues George Osborne compares no deal to Russian roulette Philip Johnston: The day six years ago when David Cameron fired the Brexit starting gun Alan Tovey: It's hard to blame Dyson for its Singapore move Sign up: Brexit Whatsapp updates and all-new Brexit Bulletin Jacob Rees-Mogg has told Theresa May she must use the nuclear option of ending the parliamentary session early if a bid by MPs to delay Brexit looks likely to succeed. The leading Brexiteer said the Prime Minister should prorogue Parliament if a plan being led by Yvette Cooper, the Labour MP, to extend Article 50 gets close to becoming... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events Cancel any time Free for 30 days then only £2 per week Try Premium … [Read more...] about Brexit latest news: Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Theresa May to shut down Parliament if MPs try to thwart Brexit
Suspend parliament if it tries to block no-deal Brexit, says Jacob Rees-Mogg
Leading Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg has called on Theresa May to suspend parliament if tries to block a no-deal Brexit. Labour MP Yvette Cooper is leading a cross-party move to get it written into law that the UK cannot leave the EU without an agreement. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is meeting with Cooper to discuss whether Labour will back her amendment if it is voted on next Tuesday. Speaking on Wednesday, Rees-Mogg demanded the government take drastic action to stop any such moves passing into law. He said: “If the House of Commons undermines our basic constitutional conventions, then the executive is entitled to use other vestigial constitutional means to stop it, by which I basically mean prorogation [suspending parliament]. "Prorogation normally lasts for three days, and any law that is in the process before prorogation falls. I think that would be the government’s answer. That is the government’s backstop, to use a choice phrase." May has repeatedly refused to … [Read more...] about Suspend parliament if it tries to block no-deal Brexit, says Jacob Rees-Mogg