Keir Starmer has warned Boris Johnson that MPs will “do everything to stand in his way” if he tries to force through a “bad deal or a no-deal Brexit”....Johnson, the frontrunner in the race to be Britain’s next prime minister, has suggested he will “disaggregate” Theresa May’s “otherwise defunct” withdrawal agreement and implement its less contentious elements...But research commissioned by Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, from the House of Commons library suggests this would still require the government to bring legislation before parliament, which MPs could then reject or amend....The library’s experts said: “Without an act of parliament, the UK cannot ratify the withdrawal agreement.”Blocking emergency legislation? The last bit reanimates my eternal quest for reasons for this extraordinary total committment:
Labour suggests a string of emergency bills on issues from medicines regulation to new rules and systems for the border in Northern Ireland would still need to be passed, even in a no-deal scenario....Any of them could potentially be seized on – and amended – by MPs looking for a mechanism to block a no-deal Brexit, or perhaps even revoke article 50.
Starmer said: “Labour will work with all sides, even former members of Theresa May’s cabinet, to protect the country from a no-deal Brexit.”
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