Boris Johnson beams as he poses with army of new Tory MPs on their first day in Westminster as PM set for Brexit bill
BORIS Johnson beamed as he posed with his newly-elected MPs today on their first day in office – many after sensationally taking seats in Labour’s northern heartlands.
The 109 MPs who stole the show on election night and won huge swathes of northern England will help Mr Johnson finally begin to fulfill his promise to get the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the new Commons before Christmas.
As the new Tory MPs tweeted their arrival, a spokesperson for Number 10 said today: “We plan to start the process before Christmas and will do so in the proper constitutional way in discussion with the Speaker.”
Labour’s “Red Wall” of seats was stormed by triumphant young, working class Tory candidates on Thursday night in seats across the North, the Midlands and Wales.
Dehenna Davison, 26, is one of the newly crowned Tory MPs who arrived in Parliament today, and tweeted a picture of herself having an induction by the Commons staff.
It is expected that Friday will see the first reading of the Bill in the House of Commons, with Mr Johnson’s thumping new 80 seat majority.
Speaking last month, the Prime Minister said: “As families sit down to carve up their turkeys this Christmas, I want them to enjoy their festive-season free from the seemingly unending Brexit box-set drama”.
While Mr Johnson will try and get the bill through parliament, there may not be an official vote until the New year if the Speaker of the House does not allow it.
The Prime Minister has promised to deliver Brexit by January 31, and said he is confident he will be able to complete talks for a new trade deal with the EU by the end of the transition period on December 31 2020.
It means Britain is finally on course for Brexit on January 31 — 1,316 days after the people voted for it.
He said in his victory speech: “This election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people.”
“And with this election, I think we’ve put an end to all those miserable threats of a second referendum.”
“I will put an end to all that nonsense, and we will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January, no ifs, no buts, no maybes.
“Leaving the European Union as one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money, our trade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people.”
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