Boris Johnson to make ‘totemic’ Brexit move and sign act repealing EU law in days as he FINALLY frees us from Brussels control
BORIS Johnson is set to sign an act to repeal EU law in days and FINALLY free us from Brussels control.
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has been ordered by the PM to sign a “commencement order” that will cement his “do or die” pledge to leave the bloc by October 31.
Brexiteers have claimed the move would be “totemic” and lay out Boris’ Brexit position in “black and white”, reports.
The no nonsense approach by Johnson is in stark contrast to Theresa May who enraged Euroscpetic MPs by delaying Brexit as much as possible.
She refused to make the order by the original March 29 deadline and instead pushed it to Halloween.
Steve Baker, chair of European Research Group, said: “It is absolutely totemic. It shows a transformation in the approach, that Boris Johnson is willing to leave on a fixed date with no question of extension.
“It’s the do-or-die pledge in black and white. It’s not merely symbolic. Once it’s signed that’s it, the UK is leaving.”
MPs voted to repeal the European Communities Act of 1972, legislation that brought Britain in the EU, with a majority of 36 votes in September this year.
In doing so they pushed through the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018 - which will be put into effect when Barclay signs the commencement order.
This is legislation designed to bring into force the whole or part of an Act of Parliament which may have been previously delayed.
Boris' Brexit plan is said to have enraged Tory rebels, frustrated because they can't legally stop the order being signed.
Tory Remainer Dominic Grieve is set to challenge the order by reversing it retrospectively, reports.
Meanwhile Sajid Javid is in Berlin today for the UK government's first meetings with Berlin.
Finance minister Olaf Sholz tweeted: "Good meeting today with my new UK colleague @sajidjavid. We discussed #Brexit and future cooperation. The EU27 stands united and is ready for all scenarios. The best and only way for an orderly withdrawal is the negotiated #Brexitdeal."
TORY CIVIL WAR
BoJo's message to Brussels comes as a fresh civil war erupts among the Conservatives after rebels vowed to work with Jeremy Corbyn to stop No Deal.
Eurosceptic Tories were outraged after Remainers including Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin and Caroline Spelman - along with independent Nick Boles - wrote to the Labour boss yesterday.
The letter said they had a "common priority" to work together to "prevent No Deal Brexit" and they welcomed his invite.
And they added: "We would be happy to meet with you as well as colleagues from other opposition parties whenever convenient in the weeks before Parliament returns."
We would be happy to meet with you as well as colleagues from other opposition parties whenever convenient in the weeks before Parliament returns
Tory Remainers
But they insisted they wanted to "discuss the different ways that this might be achieved" - in a hint they wouldn't back him to be PM if it came down to it.
The letter was the most positive reaction to Mr Corbyn's call, which was rejected by all sides of the political spectrum.
But Tories reacted with fury at the idea that their own side was talking to the Opposition at all.
Iain Duncan Smith told The Sun: "It’s contemptible than anyone would talk to an anti Semitic Marxist about possibly forming a government."
And he wrote in the Telegraph today that trying to stop Brexit would be the true betrayal.
"The thought that anyone would listen to this man, who stood on a manifesto in 2017 to deliver on the vote to leave the EU while opposed to a second referendum, but who now declares he is in favour of a second referendum, is ludicrous," he wrote.
"The message to those like Mr Hammond who want to block Brexit and to those who would do deals with Mr Corbyn to block Brexit is this: leaving with no deal isn’t a betrayal of the British people, but trying to stop it is."
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Mr Corbyn's plot to take power as a caretaker PM to delay Brexit again and call a fresh election has been slapped down by most of the opposition MPs - who said they will refuse to work with him.
The Liberal Democrats, Greens, SNP and Plaid all agreed they wanted to work together to stop a No Deal Brexit, but poured cold water on his demands to be installed in No10 if Boris Johnson is brought down.
New Lib Dem boss Jo Swinson said this morning that he "doesn't command support right across the House of Commons, and he has not been much use, frankly, on the issue of Brexit".
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