‘Suspension will spur Remainer MPs into action’
TORY grandee Kenneth Clarke yesterday said Boris Johnson’s controversial decision will galvanise bickering Remainers into action.
He spoke as the backlash continued over the prime minister’s decision to suspend British parliament for up to five weeks.
Mr Clarke said: ‘It should have the effect of getting the majority of the House of Commons who think a No-Deal Brexit would be a calamity [to] actually get together to agree some compromises between themselves, actually decide firmly what they are going to provide a majority to do and I hope they do it in legislation.
‘I hope that we get the time actually to pass that legislation properly.’
The Tory veteran also suggested he could vote against the government in a vote of no confidence if that’s what it took to stop No Deal. ‘If it’s the only way of stopping us plunging into the disaster of a No-Deal Brexit, yes,’ he said.
It came as Mr Johnson suffered his first ministerial resignation after a peer quit over the decision to suspend parliament. George Young, a minister in the Thatcher government who also served under John Major and David Cameron, said he was ‘very unhappy at the timing and length of the prorogation, and its motivation’.