UK Parliament to reconvene on Wednesday – Johnson’s request to the Queen to prorogue Parliament found unlawful – Opposition calls for Johnson’s resignation – Updated
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The speaker, John Bercow, has said the House of Commons will reconvene from Wednesday morning, as opposition parties called for Boris Johnson to resign for unlawfully asking the Queen to prorogue parliament.
In a statement on College Green in Westminster, Bercow said the House of Commons would sit from 11.30am on Wednesday in the wake of the judgment that the suspension of parliament was unlawful.
Bercow said there would be no prime minister’s questions on Wednesday but there would be scope for urgent questions, ministerial statements and emergency debate applications.
The supreme court had ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis was unlawful.
The judgment from 11 justices on the UK’s highest court follows an emergency three-day hearing last week that exposed fundamental legal differences over interpreting the country’s unwritten constitution.
Earlier the speaker of the Commons said that Parliament should be convened without delay.
Labour’s leader warned Boris Johnson could soon become “the shortest-serving Prime Minister there’s ever been”. He added: “It demonstrates a contempt for democracy and an abuse of power by him.
“I will be in touch immediately to demand that Parliament is recalled so we can question that Prime Minister, demand that he obeys the law that’s been passed by Parliament and recognise our parliament is elected by our people to hold our government to account.”
