Calls to impeach Prime Minister
PARLIAMENT should impeach Boris Johnson if the Supreme Court rules against him this week, according to Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price.
Mr Price said that in shutting down Parliament against its will, the Prime Minister had attempted to stage a coup “under the veil of prorogation”.
He added that if the Supreme Court rules the prorogation unlawful this week, it will have effectively found the Prime Minister to have “lied to parliament, the head of state, and the people”.
The Supreme Court is due to hear the case tomorrow, following a ruling by the Scottish Court of Session last week that the prorogation was unlawful.
Following the ruling, sources in 10 Downing Street implied the Scottish judges were biased.
In so doing, Mr Price – who is AM for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr – said the Prime Minister had displayed “gross arrogance and disrespect”.
Plaid Cymru had already said that if Boris Johnson were to refuse to comply with the law by not requesting an extension to Article 50, he ought to be impeached.
In 2004, Mr Price led impeachment proceedings against thenprime minister Tony Blair over the Iraq War.
Boris Johnson supported that attempt, writing at the time that Mr Blair “deserved” to be impeached because he had “treated Parliament and the public with contempt”.
Writing in the Huffington Post yesterday Mr Price said: “The prorogation of Parliament – against its widely-held will – is plainly not, as the Prime Minister would have us all believe, a run-of-themill pause in parliamentary proceedings.
“As the Scottish judges concluded earlier this week, the Prime Minister’s actions signalled a deliberate attempt to ‘stymie’ parliament, preventing the elected legislature from doing its duty in holding him and his government to account.”
He added: “If found guilty of this most serious of charges, the Prime Minister should muster the decency to call time on his chaotic premiership.”