John Bercow the UK Speaker Pledges ‘Creativity’ to Stop No-Deal Brexit

London: John Bercow, the Speaker of the UK’s House of Commons, has vowed “creativity” in Parliament if Prime Minister Boris Johnson ignores the law designed to stop a no-deal Brexit. Delivering a lecture in London, Bercow said on Thursday: “Not obeying the law must surely be a non-starter. Period,” the BBC reported.

The law Bercow was referring to was passed on Monday before Parliament was prorogued for five weeks in the early hours of Tuesday. It forces the Prime Minister to seek a delay until January 31, 2020, unless a deal or no-deal exit is approved by MPs by October 19.

The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) on October 31, but the new law passed by MPs could extend that deadline. “The only form of Brexit which we will have, whenever that might be, will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed,” he said. “Surely, in 2019, in modern Britain, in a parliamentary democracy, we - parliamentarians, legislators - cannot in all conscience be conducting a debate as to whether adherence to the law is or isn’t required.” He called it “astonishing” that “anyone has even entertained the notion”. If the government comes close to disobeying the Act, the MP said that Parliament “would want to cut off such a possibility and do so forcefully”. (IANS)

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