The Daily Telegraph - 29.08.2019

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NEWS BRIEFING

Puzzles 20

Obituaries 27

TV listings 35

Weather 37

‘All over Tuscany you can

hear the sound of British

MPs falling off their lilos’

C-section babies ‘more

likely to be autistic’

Duke’s fingers ‘show

picture with girl is fake’

I’m not intimidated by

Archer, insists Smith

Babies born by caesarean section are a

third more likely to develop autism

and a sixth more likely to develop

ADHD, a study of 20 million births has

found. But experts said it was highly

unlikely the caesarean delivery itself

was the cause of the developmental

conditions and women should not be

alarmed. Scientists said it was not clear

why the risks appeared to be so high,

regardless of whether the caesarean

section was planned or carried out in

an emergency.

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The picture of the Duke of York with a

victim of the paedophile Jeffrey

Epstein must have been faked, his

closest supporters have insisted. They

say the Duke’s fingers are “much

chubbier” in real life. Sources close to

the Duke last night launched an

extraordinary fightback against claims

that he had sex with Virginia Roberts

by suggesting he had been the victim

of digital trickery. A source told The

Daily Telegraph: “The picture is a fake,

and the girl’s story is a fantasy.”

Page 9

Steve Smith says he is ready to take on

Jofra Archer in the clash that could

settle the Ashes, despite suffering the

sickening blow on the neck that ruled

him out of the dramatic Headingley

Test. Australia’s talisman is playing

against Derbyshire this week to prove

his fitness for the fourth Test, when

Archer believes he can bowl even

faster than his ferocious 96mph spell

to Smith at Lord’s. “There’s been a bit

of talk that he’s got the wood over me

but he hasn’t got me out,” said Smith.

Sport, pages 1-

newsnews sport

By Gordon Rayner Political Editor
and Simon Johnson

MPs trying to thwart Brexit were last
night accused of risking a “constitu-
tional crisis” by the minister who per-
sonally asked the Queen to suspend
Parliament for five weeks.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader of the

Commons, hit back at those who

accused Boris Johnson of being un-

democratic, reminding them Parlia-

ment’s duty was, in the words of the

constitutional expert A V Dicey, to “give

effect to the will ... of the nation” –

which had chosen to leave the EU.

Mr Johnson’s decision to prorogue

Parliament from the second week of

September until October  14 prompted

a furious response from Remainers,

who vowed to block a no-deal Brexit by

any means possible. Protesters took to

the streets in Westminster and around

the country.

Ruth Davidson, the Europhile leader

of the Scottish Conservatives, will

today announce her decision to resign

in a direct challenge to Mr Johnson’s

authority that will put pressure on Re-

main-supporting Cabinet ministers to

follow suit. Amber Rudd, the Work and

Pensions Secretary, was said by friends

to be “disappointed” with the Prime

Minister’s decision to impose the long-

est suspension of Parliament since

1945, but would not quit “while there

was still a chance of a deal” with the EU.

Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary,

said during the Tory leadership cam-

paign that proroguing Parliament to

achieve Brexit would mean “the end of

the Conservative Party as a serious

party of government”, while Nicky

Morgan, the Culture Secretary, previ-

ously said such a move would be “mad”.

Both are understood to be staying in

the Cabinet in the hope that the tactic

pressures the EU into agreeing a deal.

There is growing optimism at No 10

that EU leaders may finally be willing

to negotiate over the backstop, after

positive meetings with Angela Merkel

and Emmanuel Macron.

An acceptance that Mr Johnson is se-

rious about no deal is also believed to

have helped bring around European

leaders to the idea of fresh talks. But

moves to take no deal off the table by

Remainer MPs could jeopardise this

progress, Downing Street feared.

Yesterday’s move to prorogue Parlia-

ment may be interpreted as sending a

message to the EU that MPs may not be

able to thwart Brexit as some European

governments believe. Mr Johnson in-

sisted his decision to end the parlia-

mentary session was taken in order to

bring forward a Queen’s Speech on

Oct 14 that will enable him to set out his

own domestic legislative agenda.

But John Bercow, the Speaker, de-

scribed the move as a “constitutional

outrage” designed to stop Parliament

debating Brexit and left little doubt that

he would use his powers to ensure that

MPs had a chance to prevent it.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader,

wrote to the Queen asking to meet her

to discuss the issue and MPs from op-

position parties said they would write

Continued on Page 2

‘The Prime

Minister

must give

effect to

the will of

the nation’

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Reports Pages 2-

Comment Pages 18-

Business Page 29

Parliament’s duty is to

deliver on result of Brexit

referendum, Rees-Mogg

tells Johnson’s opponents

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