Prorogation: Is Boris Johnson being undemocratic?

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

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4.0 • 156 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Recess? What recess? Before MPs have set foot back in Westminster, the Prime Minister is being accused of being undemocratic by suspending Parliament ahead of a Queen's Speech in October. A "constitutional outrage" says the Speaker John Bercow. Not so says Boris Johnson who says he wants to move ahead with a new programme for government and NOT thwart debates on Brexit as the 31st October deadline looms with no deal in place. All this as election fever gathers momentum following a summer of punter-friendly policy announcements. Plenty to discuss ahead of the new term as Adam Boulton is joined by The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams and The Mail on Sunday's Peter Hitchens.

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0:46.2	Hello and welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast from Sky News. I'm Adam Bolton.
0:50.7	Join me to discuss really the past month and the coming months in politics this week
0:55.7	are the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams and the Mail on Sundays columnist Peter Hitchens.
1:01.6	Welcome to you both.
1:08.1	I had this impression, having been away, you know, mostly for the month of August, that until we got that announcement from Boris Johnson, yesterday, nothing much had changed in the great Brexit battle, Peter. Was that fair?
1:21.3	It seems to me nothing has changed since 2016. It just, it every day begins the same way and ends the same way, and I just long for it to be over.
1:31.5	Having predicted catastrophe and seen it happen, I'm now really, really anxious to come to an end.
1:37.6	Just because I'm bored, any other consideration, I am so bored.
1:42.9	Do you think it is coming to an end, sir?
1:45.3	The Brexit day back all?
1:48.2	Well, it's got to come to an end at some point, hasn't it?
1:50.3	No, that's the problem. It could go on forever.
1:52.4	We could already be in hell.
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