In less than two months, Britain could crash out of the European Union without a deal. Those who voted to leave in 2016 were promised a negotiated deal by the Vote Leave campaign. The prime minister has now announced that he will prorogue parliament in an attempt to get a no-deal Brexit through. Such an unconstitutional coup risks compromising people’s jobs, security and living standards, as well as the Good Friday agreement. Now Boris Johnson is jeopardising all this for the sake of his own personal polling. It is clear that this has been done to stop MPs debating Brexit at our country’s most constitutionally charged time in recent history. We cannot allow the government to avoid scrutiny at this time of national crisis. We call for MPs to sit at an alternative parliament to continue holding the government to account and fight this most damaging Brexit.
Heidi Allen MP Independent, Hannah Bardell MP SNP, Guto Bebb MP Conservative, Luciana Berger MP Independent, Tom Brake MP Liberal Democrats, Karen Buck MP Labour, Vince Cable MP Liberal Democrats, Alistair Carmichael MP Liberal Democrats, Janet Daby MP Labour, Edward Davey MP Liberal Democrats, Geraint Davies MP Labour, Jane Dodds MP Liberal Democrats, David Drew MP Labour, Rosie Duffield MP Labour, Jonathan Edwards MP Plaid Cymru, Paul Farrelly MP Labour, Tim Farron MP Liberal Democrats, Lisa Forbes MP Labour, Mike Gapes MP The Independent Group for Change, Stephen Gethins MP SNP, Christine Jardine MP Liberal Democrats, Ged Killen MP Labour, Peter Kyle MP Labour, Ben Lake MP Plaid Cymru, David Lammy MP Labour, Caroline Lucas MP Green, Seema Malhotra MP Labour, Sandy Martin MP Labour, Rachael Maskell MP Labour, Siobhain McDonagh MP Labour, Anna McMorrin MP Labour, Layla Moran MP Liberal Democrats, Stephen Morgan MP Labour, Ian Murray MP Labour, Kate Osamor MP Labour, Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP Labour, Antoinette Sandbach MP Conservative, Liz Saville-Roberts MP Plaid Cymru, Virendra Sharma MP Labour, Tulip Siddiq MP Labour, Andy Slaughter MP Labour, Angela Smith MP Independent, Alex Sobel MP Labour, Christopher Stephens MP SNP, Jo Stevens MP Labour, Paul Sweeney MP Labour, Jo Swinson MP Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Gareth Thomas MP Labour, Chuka Umunna MP Liberal Democrats, Catherine West MP Labour, Martin Whitfield MP Labour, Hywel Williams MP Plaid Cymru, Paul Williams MP Labour, Jackie Baillie MSP Labour, Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP Liberal Democrat, Ross Greer MSP Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie MSP Scottish Greens, Daniel Johnson MSP Labour, Rory Palmer MEP Labour, Adam Price AM Leader of Plaid Cymru, Anas Sarwar MSP Labour, Alyn Smith MEP SNP
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