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Boris Johnson brings back to strike against the British Parliament. The British Prime Minister wanted to suspend the sessions of the House of Commons from October 8 to a speech by the Queen to the government program on October 14, said Downing Street.
The planned one-week break was "the shortest possible time" to meet "all the necessary logistical arrangements" for the speech of Queen Elizabeth II, the PM's office said. The queen traditionally reads the government program of the prime minister.
Paul ELLIS / AFP; THE MIRROR
It is Johnson's second attempt to keep the lower house cold and undisturbed during Brexit. A five-week compulsory break from Parliament, which he ordered, had declared the country's Supreme Court "illegal" at the end of September.
Johnson had replaced his predecessor Theresa May also at the head of the government by his election to the head of the conservative Tories in late July. Subsequently, he promised his followers to implement the withdrawal from the European Union on 31 October, if necessary, even without an agreement. This was forbidden to him by parliament by law, whereupon he sent the deputies on 10 September in the controversial compulsory break, which should last until his 14 October.