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| The Queen will be asked by the government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline. | |
| BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says it will make way for Boris Johnson's new administration to hold a Queen's Speech - laying out the government's plans - on 14 October. | |
| But it means MPs are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the prime minister taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on 31 October. | But it means MPs are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the prime minister taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on 31 October. |
| Tory backbencher and Remain campaigner Dominic Grieve called it "an outrageous act", and warned it could lead to a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson, adding: "This government will come down." | |
| But a No 10 source defended the move, saying: "It's time a new government and new PM set out a plan for the country after we leave the EU." | |
| The idea of shutting down Parliament - known as prorogation - has caused controversy, with critics saying it would stop MPs being able to play their democratic part in the Brexit process. | |
| Laura Kuenssberg said only a small number of government ministers knew about the plan before its announcement and it would inevitably cause a huge row. | |
| She said the government would argue it was "a bog standard Queen's Speech process", despite all of the surrounding noise. | |
| 'Utterly scandalous' | |
| Mr Johnson says he wants to leave the EU on 31 October with a deal, but it is "do or die" and he is willing to leave without one rather than miss the deadline. | |
| That position has prompted a number of opposition MPs to come together to try to block a possible no deal, and on Tuesday they announced that they intended to use parliamentary process to do so. | |
| But if Parliament is suspended on 10 September, as is suggested, it will only give them a few days next week to push for their changes. | |
| Mr Grieve - a former attorney general - told BBC Radio 5 Live: "If the prime minister persists with this and doesn't back off, then I think the chances are that his administration will collapse. | |
| "There is plenty of time to do that if necessary [and] I will certainly vote to bring down a Conservative government that persists in a course of action which is so unconstitutional." | |
| Labour deputy leader Tom Watson tweeted that the move was an "utterly scandalous affront to our democracy". | |
| Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said MPs must come together to stop the plan next week, or "today will go down in history as a dark one indeed for UK democracy". | |
| But Conservative Party Chairman James Cleverly defended the plan as what "all governments do". | |
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