Boris Johnson fails to talk senior MPs round
If anything, Tory rebels were only hardened by the PM's call with backbenchers.
If anything, Tory rebels were only hardened by the PM's call with backbenchers.
The PM tried to drum up support today as he moves to table legislation that could override parts of his lauded deal.
Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Johnson said: “I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a Treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK."
The PM also came a cropper in the international press, which described his latest moves as "barbaric".
"Does not understand the damage done to our reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law?"
From Brexit to prorogation via Barnard Castle, a guide to Boris Johnson's uneasy relationship with legality.
The fully costed plan to boost the NHS budget, provide affordable housing and free superfast internet was said to have no ‘economic credibility’.
After years of chronic underfunding, the Conservatives could be about to match the NHS budget in one foul swoop.
Johnson replied that he expects everyone to obey the law - even though he is planning to break it himself. It was beyond parody.
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