MPs will then not return to Westminster until 14 October, when he said there would be a new Queen’s speech, setting out what he called a “bold and ambitious domestic legislative agenda for the renewal of our country after Brexit”.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has already taken to social media to rally a cry for a vote of no confidence, something US President Donald Trump thinks is a waste of time.
The move to suspend parliament is an attempt to reduce the time in which Brexit cold be debated and thus curtail the time MPs have to introduce legislation or other measures aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit.
According to reports on The Guardian the prime minister claimed there would be “ample time” to debate Brexit, as he wrote to MPs on Wednesday, saying he had spoken to the Queen and asked her to suspend parliament from “the second sitting week in September”
MPs returning on 3 September.
A new spending review on 4 September.
Parliament prorogued before party conferences on 12 September.
Parliament returns for Queen’s speech on 14 October.
The EU council meets on 17 October, potentially to agree any new Brexit deal.
The UK would be due to leave the EU on 31 October.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was questioned at Aberdeen airport and had this to say:
