The prime minister has cut short his New York visit after suspension of parliament deemed unlawful
The stunning supreme court ruling, which found Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament “unlawful”, is unsurprisingly the lead on all the newspapers today, with very mixed takes on the news.
The Guardian front page, Wednesday 25 September 2019: He misled the Queen,the people and parliament pic.twitter.com/4hdeHerzeN
Wednesday’s SCOTSMAN: Unlawful #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/P32I0UGhBR
Wednesday’s i: Humiliated PM refuses to resign #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/l6s5Sjf13J
Wednesday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/6HPmSKKJ5p
Tomorrow's front page: There's a special place in history waiting for you, Prime Minister#TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/KtNG2EuMzg pic.twitter.com/ICEQwroAlq
The Sun front page. pic.twitter.com/OUsc9Qatec
Wednesday’s TIMES: PM flies back to chaos #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/cPBOcIQOoJ
Wednesday’s TELEGRAPH #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/9PvkorgXKl
Wednesday’s EXPRESS: Unlawful? Whats unlawful about denying 17.4m Brexit! #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/KsFAWh3sDO
Wednesday’s FT: Johnson faces calls to resign as judges rule Parliament’a closure ‘unlawful’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/MPmhK0qHRz
Lord Adonis is up, he is mad and he is tweeting.
The Labour peer has called the Tories “a revolutionary rabble – with Eton accents”, published an imagined Queen’s speech, and tweeted a quote from a (real) speech from Margaret Thatcher, in which she asserts the importance of an independent judiciary whose decisions aren’t undermined for the rule of law.
The Tories are now a revolutionary rabble - with Eton accents https://t.co/FQOnevKEwv
What Johnson should have said in that phone call to the Queen: ‘I am extremely sorry. I should not have abused you & the constitution in this way. I have been found out. I resign immediately’
Margaret Thatcher on the rule of law requiring independent judges whose decisions aren’t undermined - & telling politicians in emerging democracies to ‘see what is happening in this country.’ Those were the days! h/t @nathlloyd pic.twitter.com/kUO0hEvvVE
‘One has been given a list of Bills to read out on education, health and life sentences for offences for which my prime minister merits multiple convictions. But as I’m told he said to a young lady who he took on a trade mission, they are all poppycock to try and win an election’
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2l0Rrtq
