India, Aug. 30 -- Shock! Horror! Johnson prorogues Parliament! End of democracy in Britain! The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, says he was not even consulted, and calls it "a constitutional outrage." Or, to put it a little less dramatically, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cut the amount of time that Parliament will meet before he crashes the United Kingdom (UK) out of the European Union (EU) in a "no-deal" Brexit on October 31 by six working days.
Johnson will face Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister on September 4, but they will all go off on a holiday again on September 10, not on the 13th as scheduled. And then Parliament won't meet again until October 14, not on the originally planned date of October 9. So ...