Johnson set October 14 for the Queen’s Speech – the formal state opening of a new session of parliament that is preceded by a suspension of the House of Commons.
Incensed opposition leaders wrote to the queen to express their concern and asked for a meeting, threatening to drag the 93-year-old monarch into the constitutional crisis.
While suspending parliament ahead of a Queen’s Speech is the historical norm in Britain, the decision to limit parliamentary scrutiny, weeks before the country’s most contentious policy decision in decades, prompted an immediate outcry. The Church of England said a chaotic EU exit would hurt the poor, the speaker of parliament said politicians must be heard and a group of cross-party lawmakers sought a legal injunction.
More than three years after the UK voted 52 per cent to 48 per cent to quit the EU, it is still unclear on what terms – or indeed whether – the bloc’s second-largest economy will leave the club it joined in 1973. “Shutting down Parliament would be an offence against the democratic process and the rights of Parliamentarians as the people’s elected representatives,’’ Bercow, who voted to remain in the EU in 2016, said in a statement.
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