Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson will suspend Parliament for more than a month before Brexit, enraging opponents and raising the stakes in the country's most serious political crisis in decades.
Boris Johnson's self-styled image as a 'defender of the people' is in trouble after a snap YouGov poll revealed the public view the desperate efforts to force through Brexit as 'undemocratic'.
Autocratic global leaders will be bolstered if Boris Johnson breaks law over Brexit, senior Tory warns
07/06/2019
Ex-deputy prime minister David Lidington highlights 'danger' when other countries face threat to 'rule of law and democratic government'.
Amber Rudd's resignation letter
07/09/2019
“assault on decency and democracy” / “political vandalism”
‘Parliaments are the house of democracy!’ EU parliament president slams Boris Johnson’s suspension of Commons
12/09/2019
David Sassoli says decision appears to hark back to another era.
‘The UK dictator’: Newspapers across Europe react with fury and fear to Boris Johnson proroguing parliament
11/09/2019
Turmoil at home raises trepidation abroad - with European observers increasingly of view that British democracy is dying.
Justice Secretary refuses to rule out shutting down parliament again and casts doubt on Queen's Speech
17/09/2019
Asked if a second prorogation is 'remotely conceivable', Robert Buckland says events are too volatile to make predictions.
'Our freedom is at stake here': meet Brexit protesters who queue at Supreme Court from 5am
18/09/2019
“This is about the underpinnings of our democracy,” said one protester stood outside the Supreme Court waving a placard politely accusing Boris Johnson of misleading the Queen.
'This is the house of British democracy now,' says EU politician in European Parliament [2 mins]
18/09/2019
'We all have to speak English today here because we are representing not only the European people, but also the British people'
PM says adverse supreme court ruling would not stop him proroguing parliament again.
Judges rule unanimously that PM’s decision to prorogue parliament can be examined by judges.
Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.
UK’s top judges unanimously rule on prime minister's proroguing of parliament ahead of Brexit deadline.
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had acted unlawfully when he advised Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament weeks before Brexit - and that therefore the suspension was void.
MPs from across the parties gather in the chamber, as one says "parliamentary sovereignty has been upheld".
The results were obtained by Freedom of Information requests submitted by the London Liberal Democrats and seen by Sky News.
Boris Johnson was responding to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford's call to respect the convention that UK legislation which affects Scotland should have Holyrood's consent.
Labour and Tories prefer one-on-one format, which would mean no place for Jo Swinson’s party.
'We have no objections': Security officials say secret Russia report being blocked by Boris Johnson government can be published immediately
05/11/2019
'We are as much spectators in this as you are,' security source tells The Independent, as government blocks publication of documents until after election.
Intelligence and security committee chair says dossier has facts ‘germane’ to voters.