Attorney General Geoffrey Cox faced MPs questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday a day after the Supreme Court ruled against the Prime Minister saying his decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful. Speaking in the Commons, Mr Cox delivered a series of quick one-liners leaving MPs absolutely stunned. The Attorney General accused MPs of being too “cowardly” of trying to trigger a general election and giving a say back to the British people.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Cox delivered six astonishing lines stunning the benches opposite.
1) “The time is coming when even these turkeys won’t be able to prevent Christmas.”
2) “I offer this to the frontbench of the Labour Party, all we need is a one-line bill that we can put through with the Speakers help fixing the date of the general election by a simple majority and we can have an election. This spineless gang on the frontbench have not got the guts to put that motion into providence because most of them do not want their leader in power.”
3) “They could agree to a motion to allow this House to dissolve, but they are too cowardly. This Parliament should have the courage to face the electorate, but it won’t. It won’t because so many of them are really about preventing us leaving the European Union.”
4) “Denying the electorate the chance of having its say this Parliament is a dead Parliament. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches.”
5) “Given the opportunity, since I am asked, let me tell them the truth, they could vote no confidence at any time, but they are too cowardly.”
6) “Twice they have been asked to let the electorate decide whether they should sit in their seats while they block 17.4 million votes, this Parliament is a disgrace.”
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Mr Johnson, who landed in the UK around midday on Wednesday and is expected to later address the Commons, faced calls to resign following the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday morning which decided his suspension of Parliament was unlawful.
The Prime Minister, who was in New York at the time of the ruling for the UN General Assembly, insisted he would not be deterred by the ruling from taking Britain out of the EU on October 31.
Mr Johnson said he had the ”utmost respect” for the judiciary and would abide by the court’s ruling, but said he “strongly disagreed” with its decision.
He said: “I think it would be very unfortunate if Parliament made that objective which the people want more difficult but we will get on.”
The Labour Party leader Mr Corbyn, who brought forward his conference speech so he could return to Westminster on Wednesday said that once a no deal Brexit was off the table, they would seek a general election.
He told delegates in Brighton: “The Prime Minister acted illegally when he tried to shut down opposition to his reckless and disastrous plan to crash out of the European Union without a deal. But he has failed. This unelected Prime Minister should now resign.”
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti said: “We do not want the country to crash out of the European Union without an arrangement because of the catastrophic effects that would bring for food supplies, for fuel supplies, for security arrangements.
“What we need is for Boris Johnson to present his deal to the House of Commons or to comply with the law because there is now legislation on this, and to request an extension of time of the European Union.
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“When we have got to that point, then, of course, we can trigger a general election, and I would like it to be within days not weeks, but we have to have to ensure the catastrophic consequences of an accidental crash out are prevented.”
SNP leader at Westminster Ian Blackford added that once it was clear a no deal Brexit was blocked, MPs should combine to pass a vote of no confidence.
He said: “We cannot tolerate this man who is behaving in an undemocratic manner, behaving like a dictator.
“He has to be removed from office and the opposition has to come together, the opposition has to do its job.”
