John Berrow said Johnson was attempting to stop Parliament from 'performing its duty'— Reuters pic
LONDON, Aug 28 — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to extend the period during which parliament does not normally sit is a “constitutional outrage” designed to stop lawmakers debating Brexit, speaker of the lower house John Bercow was quoted as saying by the BBC.
“This move represents a constitutional outrage. However it is dressed up it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of prorogation now would be to stop Parliament debating Brexit and performing its duty,” Bercow said, according to the BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg. — Reuters