Prime minister Boris Johnson ‘says he wants a deal. He desperately needs one’.

• FORMER prime minister David Cameron described the current chief political adviser to the current PM, Dominic Cummings, as a “career psychopath”.

Cummings is accused of being chief architect of the Machiavellian manoeuvre of proroguing parliament.

Denials by Boris Johnson about when it was first proposed have exposed yet another lie – compounded by the fact that the prime minister and all leadership candidates said proroguing was unacceptable.

The same candidates are now in Boris Johnson’s cabinet and avoid their denunciations that proroguing was never going to happen.

And questions of ignoring the new law against a no-deal-Brexit are doubly concerning when accusations followed a judgment against the government are made while the impartiality of the judiciary was questioned.

We have an informal unwritten constitution – “A gentleman’s agreement” if you like – but successful legal challengers at the highest court in Scotland are to be ignored while saying the “law will be obeyed” is a legal “pick’n’mix” to not follow the law when it does not suit you but choose those that do.

The courts usually are separate from parliament and politics but are playing a more interventionist role. Many scholars, experts in the field of constitutional law, say we now need a formal written constitution.

Boris Johnson says he wants a deal. He desperately needs one. But several points here; the European Union don’t like or trust him following his endless critical, some invented, very public, comments that has not endeared him over the years.

And everyone in Brussels confirms there is no a deal on the table only bluster. The slogan for the leave campaign was “Take Back Control”, which begs the question did we ever have control?

And we are supposed to trust a prime minister who took three weeks to leave the official foreign secretary’s residence after resigning when he says “leave means leave”?

PATRICK EDLIN
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