Remainer Speaker John Bercow blasted for ‘phoney outrage’ and being ‘unconstitutional’ over Boris’ Brexit plans

REMAINER Speaker John Bercow has been blasted for “phoney outrage” after ranting about Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans.

Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out at Bercow after he said the PM caused “constitutional outrage” for getting the Queen to approve his shutdown of Parliament.

The Brexiteer MP said "the most constitutionally improper thing that happened yesterday" was the Speaker's intervention.

He fumed: "I think the outrage is phoney and it is created by people who don't want us to leave the European Union and are trying very hard to overturn the referendum result and don't want the benefits of leaving the European Union."

PHONEY OUTRAGE

He added: "Parliament wasn't going to be sitting for most of this time anyway. This is completely constitutional and proper."

This is not the first time Bercow has clashed with Brexiteer MPs.

Earlier this month Bercow vowed he would fight any attempt to prorogue Parliament with "every bone in my body".

Mr Bercow said: “If there is an attempt to circumvent, to bypass or - God forbid! - to close down Parliament: that is anathema to me and I will fight it with every bone in my body to stop that happening.

I think the outrage is phoney and it is created by people who don't want us to leave the European Union and are trying very hard to overturn the referendum result and don't want the benefits of leaving the European Union

Jacob Rees-Mogg

“We cannot have a situation in which Parliament is shut down - we are a democratic society.”

The Tory Buckingham MP is an arch-Remainer and was seen driving a car with "b******s to Brexit" sticker on it - he later claimed it belonged to his wife.

More than a million desperate Remainers have signed a petition against the PM’s plan to suspend Parliament.

While thousands of angry anti-Brexit protesters staged a mass demonstration in Westminster last night with smaller rallies held across the country.

However, Rees-Mogg, Leader of the Commons, was unmoved by the protesters and said it didn't mean anything compared to the historic Brexit vote in 2016.

He said this morning: "A million people may have signed a petition, but 17million went out to the ballot box to vote to leave."

The Queen approved the PM’s request to prorogue Parliament and stop Jeremy Corbyn's plan to block a No Deal exit from the EU, yesterday afternoon.

Her Majesty met with members of Privy Council, including Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, in Balmoral and the suspension - to take place between September 9 to October 14 - was given the green light.

Boris' bold move to block MPs from sitting in Parliament for around five weeks over conference season will give Remainers less time to launch new plots to stop us leaving on October 31.

MPs would come back for a Queen's Speech on October 14 under the plans, just two weeks before we're due to leave the EU.

That would leave just days for a possible vote of no confidence in Boris, or for rebel MPs to pass a law to push back the Brexit date.

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