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CORBYN RALLIES
a former Labour council candidate
sparked uproar by tweeting out
leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-
Mogg’s home address yesterday
and demanding people turn up
outside to protest.
Anti-prorogation demonstra-
tions have already been called in
Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Lon-
don, Manchester, Newcastle, Not-
tingham, Oxford, Sheffield and
York on Saturday.
Momentum’s Miss Parker said
the group was contacting all its
supporters and encouraging them
to ‘protest, occupy and blockade’
on Saturday. She added: ‘Our mes-
sage to Johnson is this: if you steal
our democracy, we’ll shut down
the streets. This is an establish-
ment coup by a tiny, privileged
elite who have been eroding our
democracy for decades.
‘Real power doesn’t sit with the
Queen or in Parliament. It’s with
us, the people – and that’s why we
need to take action.’
The protests threaten travel
chaos for workers, shoppers and
tourists across the UK. Tory MP
Michael Farbricant condemned
the plans, saying: ‘Corbyn has
unleashed the mob by not con-
demning the unlawful behaviour of
his Momentum private army.’
His Tory colleague Andrew
Bridgen said: ‘Corbyn is letting
loose his Momentum anarchists
to try to achieve what he cannot
achieve through the ballot box.’
Tory MP Paul Scully added: ‘This
shows the sinister lengths Cor-
byn’s hard-left supporters will go
in their attempts to subvert the
democratic decision of the British
people to leave the EU.’
Hundreds took part in a demon-
stration outside Parliament on
Wednesday night against the
Prime Minister’s announcement.
An online petition against proro-
gation had last night topped1.5million signatures. Yesterday,
former Labour council candidate
Howard Simpson triggered fury by
tweeting Mr Rees-Mogg’s home
address in Somerset and demand-
ing people turn up outside to pro-
test. He later deleted his tweet after
Labour MP Paula Sherriff wrote on
Twitter: ‘Please do not do this.
Peacefully protest elsewhere by all
means but families, and particularly
children are never fair game.’
Police were alerted after social
media users posted the address of
the pub near Mr Rees-Mogg’s
home where they planned to meet
before targeting the leader of the
Commons. However, the demon-
stration turned into a damp squib
when a handful of people showed
up and were moved on by police.
Last year a demonstration at MrRees-Mogg’s Westminster home
drew widespread criticism after
protesters shouted at his children.
A group of trade unionists has
also called for strike action to
defeat Mr Johnson’s Brexit plans.
More than 100 leading union reps
signed a statement arguing for
immediate direct action ‘despite
legal restrictions’ placed on their
organisations. The reps, whose
membership spans Unite, NEU,
GMB, Unison and other unions,
promised ‘direct action, including
protests, strikes, and occupations’.
Separately, thousands of ‘Stop
the Coup’ activists signed a pledge
which states: ‘If the Government
tries to drive No Deal through by
stopping Parliament from sitting,
we cannot just rely on the courts
and parliamentary process. Weneed a massive movement of
resistance, with marches, civil dis-
obedience and protests.’
The demonstrations were backed
by Labour Treasury spokesman
Clive Lewis who on Wednesday
pledged to stage a sit-in in the
Commons chamber.
n Brexiteers yesterday cheered the
return of Andrew Neil to the BBC,
as it was announced he will front a
new weekly politics programme.
The Andrew Neil Show will air
every Wednesday at 7pm from next
week until the end of October, with
a brief to dissect Brexit.
The veteran presenter – widely
viewed as an antidote to the BBC’s
left-wing leanings – has spent the
last 16 years hosting late-night
politics show, This Week, but
stepped down earlier this year.He urges MPs to
join left-wing
rabble-rousers in
street protests
aimed at crippling
cities as Labour
ramps up its war
against Boris
LABOUR was accused of ‘unleash-
ing the mob’ last night after the
Corbynite group Momentum called
on its followers to ‘occupy bridges
and blockade roads’ to oppose the
suspension of Parliament.
Laura Parker, the group’s national
co-ordinator, called for direct action in
ten cities across the country tomorrow
to counteract what she called Boris
Johnson’s prorogation ‘coup’.
And last night Mr Corbyn urged MPs to
attend the demonstrations.
In a letter to the Parliamentary Labour
Party, he said he would be addressing a
‘major rally’ in Salford on Monday. He
added: ‘There are also public protests this
By Daniel Martin
Policy Editor
‘Marches and civil
disobedience’
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LITTLEJOHNBATTLE FOR BREXIT
Three court cases over
Parliament shutdown
Student Labour
love-in is over
McDonnell hints PM’s
behaving like Hitler
JOHN McDonnell appeared to
compare Boris Johnson to Adolf
Hitler yesterday over his plan to
suspend Parliament.
The shadow chancellor said
British people had given their
lives to safeguard democracy,
adding that they have ‘stood up
to dictators before and they will
stand up to this one as well’.
He warned the Prime Minister
that Britons will not tolerate him
‘trying to undermine the very
institution... that people have
given their lives for’. ‘To try and
undermine that flies in the face of
a whole history and centuries of
democratic advancement in this
country,’ he added.
The Labour MP also turned the
issue of class against the PM,
accusing him of treating the peo-
ple like ‘serfs’. Mr McDonnell said
suspending Parliament for more
than a month showed Mr John-
son’s ‘deep-seated arrogant sense
of entitlement’.
‘He’s reverted to a much older
Tory tradition. He’s a ruler, ruling
over the ruled,’ he added.BORIS Johnson faces a three-
pronged legal challenge to his
controversial decision to sus-
pend Parliament.
Court bids were launched in
London, Edinburgh and Belfast
seeking an emergency injunction
to prevent the prorogation.
The London proceedings were
issued by anti-Brexit campaigner
Gina Miller, who accused the
Prime Minister of ‘hijacking the
Queen’s prerogative power’ for
‘unscrupulous means’.
Pro-Remain barrister JoMaugham, director of the Good
Law Project, filed a motion ask-
ing the Scottish Court of Session
to suspend the PM’s request.
In Northern Ireland an injunc-
tion application from prominent
victims campaigner Raymond
McCord was adjourned for 24
hours. Former Tory prime minis-
ter Sir John Major has also said
he is seeking legal advice.
But Lord Sumption, a former
Supreme Court Justice, said the
decision was not ‘beyond the
powers of the Government’.SUPPORT for Labour among students
has plummeted to its lowest level in
four years, a survey suggests.
Backing for the party among UK stu-
dents has almost halved in the 18
months since the peak of ‘Corbyn
mania’, according to a poll commis-
sioned by Times Higher Education.
The YouthSight survey shows just 38
per cent of the 1,000 students polled
would vote Labour, down from more
than 70 per cent in February last year.
The drop could be connected to
Labour’s ambiguous Brexit policy.Saturday, and there will be a rally in Par-
liament Square on Tuesday, and I encour-
age Labour MPs to be present and to
share our message.’
In his letter, Mr Corbyn said: ‘No one
voted for Boris Johnson’s shutdown of
democracy. That is why the public out-
rage at his actions has been so deafening,
and why I am encouraging MPs to join
public protests.’
Meanwhile hundreds of activists from
the group ‘Defend Our Democracy’ held
an angry rally outside Tory MP Alex
Chalk’s constituency office in Cheltenham
to confront him over the issue. Elsewhere,
Support:
Jeremy
Corbyn on a
tour of
Scotland
yesterday