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PHOTOGRAPH: RUSSELL CHEYNE/REUTERSSenior Tories pledge rapid
action to thwart no deal
Jessica Elgot
Chief political correspondentA growing number of senior Tory
rebels have signalled they are now
prepared to back urgent legislation to
thwart a no-deal Brexit amid anger and
disbelief over Boris Johnson’s decision
to suspend parliament.
In an escalation of the civil war in
the Tory party, David Gauke, the for-
mer justice secretary, became the
latest senior Conservative to urge
his colleagues to act immediately
rather than wait to see if Johnson can
deliver an alternative to the back-
stop in the 30-day period proff ered
by the German chancellor, Angela
Merkel.
His intervention came as the Labour
leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said parlia-
ment would “legislate rapidly” next
Tuesday to stop a no-deal Brexit andpledged to launch an attempt to stop
prorogation.
A signifi cant number of Conserv-
ative MPs said yesterday that they
were now prepared to back legisla-
tion in the Commons next week , which
they might otherwise have viewed as
premature.
Echoing earlier comments by the
former chancellor Philip Hammond,
Gauke said he believed Tory MPs could
now not aff ord to wait.
“It does look like next week is essen-
tially the only opportunity parliament
will have to maintain some control
over this process and ensure that it has
a say before we leave without a deal,”
he said. “I don’t think one can rule out
the possibility of parliament being able
to fi nd a way through this.”
Margot James, the former digi-
tal minister, said she had previously
been minded to give Johnson time to
negotiate. “I had wanted to give theI will therefore support any legislative
action that is possible next week as it
is quite likely that it could be parlia-
ment’s only chance to impact on how
we leave the EU.”
James, who resigned shortly before
the recess, said the prorogation, cou-
pled with the resignation of Lord
Young, a government whip in the
Lords, had been a tipping point for
her. Young resigned earlier yesterday
saying he was “very unhappy at the
timing and length of the prorogation,
and its motivation”. “For him to have
no place in the government demon-
strates with deeply depressing clarity
just what a minority government this
has become, it s only mandate a vote
from around 90,000 members of the
Conservative party, a third of which
joined since the referendum and who
are not representative of the country
as a whole,” she said.
Richard Harrington, theHRT breast
cancer risk
‘twice what
was thought’
Sarah Boseley
Health editorThe risk of breast cancer from using
hormone replacement therapy is
double what was previously thought,
according to a major piece of research,
that confi rms HRT is a direct cause of
the disease.
The fi ndings of the defi nitive study
will cause concern among the 1 million
women in the UK and millions more
around the world who are using HRT.
It fi nds that the longer women take
it, the greater their risk, with the pos-
sibility that just one year is risk-free.
It also fi nds that the risk does not go
away as soon as women stop taking the
therapy, as had been assumed.
The UK’s drug licensing body sug-
gested women who have used or are
using HRT should be vigilant for signs
of breast cancer in the light of the fi nd-
ings, while the Royal College of GPs
urged them not to panic but to consult
their doctor if they were concerned.
The research, published in the Lan-
cet medical journal , says one in 50
women of average weight taking the
most common form – combined daily
oestrogen and progestogen – for fi ve
years will get breast cancer
as a result. That risk is twice(^2)
5
PM until the third week of September
- the 30 days he agreed with Merkel –
to surprise us all with an alternative to
the backstop that would be negotiable
with the EU,” she said.
“Also, I was hoping we would fi nd
a way of sitting through at least part
of the conference recess. However,
that option has been fatally under-
mined by the decision to prorogue
parliament for far longer than normal.
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