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Boris Johnson wants to send Parliament back on a forced break on Tuesday. This time around, parliamentarians will have just under a week to prepare for the Queen's speech on October 14. This corresponds approximately to the usual period. It is therefore unlikely that the forced break could be challenged again in court.
The last time Britain's prime minister had taken an unprecedented five-week break. However, this was declared invalid by the Supreme Court for lack of justification. The Johnson administration had not even bothered to justify its exceptionally long compulsory break before the judges.
With Parliament's silence again, Johnson tries to set the tone in the public debate and prevent MPs from possibly agreeing on a transition prime minister - and disempowering it with a vote of no confidence.
Lastly, Johnson did not look good in Parliament; the mood was poisoned. A parliamentarian who called for moderation and recalled the murdered MP Jo Cox, he hurled a "Humbug!" contrary to what he later declared a "misunderstanding".
The parliamentarians could well get in his way. So this week they have already put their fingers into the many wounds that have opened: Brexit, the Arcuri affair and the charge against Johnson, at a lunch in 1999, two women groped.
Many Britons have still forgiven Johnson for his affairs
Although the allegation of allegation is unlikely to be proven. But the parliamentarians could have kept the topic on the agenda. So far, the British Johnson have always forgiven his many affairs. However, the charge of touching immoral women has a completely different weight. The conservative Tories congress indicated that some Britons expect their Prime Minister to behave differently.
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Even more dangerous for Johnson could be the Arcuri affair: He is under suspicion at his time as mayor of London, the American entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri favored with public funds, travel and contacts - with whom he had a relationship. One of his former colleagues was also said to have ensured that Arcuri got a coveted British business visa. An independent regulatory agency is currently investigating whether it intends to investigate Johnson for an offense.
Unlike the Grapsch reproach, this case should be able to reconstruct exactly, after all there are e-mails and files on the events. The parliamentarians could have asked the prime minister uncomfortable questions and harmed his carefully cultivated image of the sometimes rather clumsy but basically decent creator.
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An agreement with Brussels? Unlikely
Above all, the Prime Minister does not want to ask any more questions about how he wants to fulfill his most important promise to lead the UK out of the EU by 31 October. Although Downing Street has announced that Brussels will finally, much too late, make a written proposal for a negotiation. At the same time, Johnson's previous indications suggest that the proposal simply ignores several EU negotiating conditions. It is therefore unlikely that Johnson will succeed in agreeing with Brussels in the coming weeks.
So how Johnson wants to complete the Brexit by the end of the month, is still completely unclear. Because an option would be a deal with Brussels. The other, Britain's stumbling out of the EU on 31 October without agreement, has not been completely ruled out by the no-no-deal law, but has become much more difficult. But instead of asking questions, Johnson appears to be prophylactically trying to blame others for not being able to do it, like the parliamentarians whose no-no-deal law he called the "capitulation law" or Brussels, in which Direction he now railed, Great Britain has moved, now it is up to the EU to do so.
In fact, it seems that Johnson's focus is not on Brexit's execution at all. At the conservative Tories congress that was just ending, Premier Brexit mentioned only marginally. Apparently he knows that the local audience is now tired of the topic. "Get Brexit Done," the Brexit event was the motto of the conference, but he did not reveal it. Instead, he preferred to talk about something completely different.
It seems that the Prime Minister has long been preparing for the next election campaign. In his big appearance at the end of the convention on Wednesday, Johnson promised more security, a better education and health system and, on top of that, a more prosperous future for all, including in the hitherto suspended regions of Britain.
Apparently he wants to continue in this pitch now, not with unpleasant demands for possible abuse of office, immoral attacks and his Brexit plan. Because with the speech of the Queen, who will open the new session after the compulsory break of the parliament, the government gets the opportunity to present their projects. It will probably once again the promise catalog of the congress: "More police, doctors and teachers," summed up a member of the Tories.