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‘Can the Queen sack a PM?’: how Boris Johnson prorogued parliament
When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019 he was determined to prevent anti-Brexit MPs thwarting his efforts to get Brexit done. He vowed to suspend parliament to prevent them.
Johnson made the most controversial decision of his premiership wearing a pair of Bermuda shorts, black work shoes and formal socks, his T-shirt damp with sweat. The prime minister had just played tennis in this bizarre get-up on the court at Chevening when he sat down with his senior staff to discuss a plan to prorogue parliament.
Knowledge of the meeting, on Saturday August 10, let alone the plan, had been confined to a small circle of key advisers, now gathered around a large table upstairs, in a room overlooking the lake. Sunlight streamed
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