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Boris Johnson to address Tory MPs after surprise cabinet this afternoon – as general election speculation intensifies

Boris Johnson has called a unexpected meeting of the cabinet today at 5pm, multiple Whitehall sources have confirmed. The prime minister is then expected to address Conservative MPs at a summer garden party in Downing Street.

The scheduling of the meeting has sent the rumour mill in Westminster into overdrive about the possibility that the government will set out plans for an snap general election this week.

Though no plans have been confirmed, senior rebel sources believe that Johnson could move as early as Wednesday this week, with a motion tabled the following day which would require the support of two-thirds of MPs.

A vote on the snap poll would come with a commitment that polling day would be before October 31 – though the date would ultimately be in the control of the government.





A Scottish court has refused leave to appeal a judge’s decision last week to reject an application for an emergency ban on Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament last week.

On Friday Lord Doherty, sitting in the court of session in Edinburgh, refused a request by lawyers for 75 anti-Brexit MPs and peers for an interim suspension and interim interdict, or injunction, of the prime minister’s decision to prorogue parliament.

In a compromise move, Doherty instead brought forward a full hearing on the main legal case against prorogation from Friday this week to tomorrow.

Joanna Cherry, the Scottish National party MP leading the group drawn from most of Westminster’s opposition parties and coordinated by the Good Law Project, said on Friday that was a victory.

Despite that, the group’s legal team applied earlier this morning for leave to appeal Doherty’s refusal to grant that emergency ban.

Cherry’s lawyers wanted to greatly speed up the appeal process because they expect Doherty will support the UK government’s case that Johnson’s move is legal tomorrow, which will require an urgent appeal at the court of session on Thursday. They worry they could lose time to get the case heard by the supreme court before next Monday, when prorogation could take effect.

The Scottish judiciary tweeted that their application had been denied, and the case will go to a full hearing tomorrow as scheduled.

Judges Scotland
(@JudgesScotland)

Application for leave to appeal refused. The substantive hearing will take place at 10am on Tuesday 3 September in court 9 at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.


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