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Would Jeremy
Corbyn as PM be a
disaster for Britain?By Tom Martin
and Sam Lister
A CANARY found flying loose in
a Plymouth park has been
nicknamed Boris because of his
fluffy yellow feathers.
Spotted on Saturday, the
bird was brought into the
RSPCA’s Little Valley Animal
Centre in Exeter, where staff
nicknamed him after the new
Prime Minister.
Megan Higgins, RSPCA
animal collection officer, said:
“The woman spotted the little
canary and a budgie in a park
and knew they were lost as
they both had rings on their
legs. She managed to catch
the birds and took them home
before calling us in.”
Ms Higgins added:
“The budgie’s owner was
tracked down and reunited
with their pet.
“But we’ve not been able to
trace this sweet little
canary’s owner.” The
RSPCA hopes to trace
the owner and return
Boris home.Meet Boris... a
high-flier who
ruffles feathers
Waiting
for the
revolution
...Jeremy
Corbyn
would be
sent to the
Queen to
insist that
Labour
was taking
overTORIES erupted in fury last night at
Labour’s “Marxist revolutionary”
plot to demand the Queen installs
Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.
The Labour leader will turn up at
the gates of Buckingham Palace to
demand he be made prime minister
if Boris Johnson loses a confidence
vote, Shadow Chancellor John
McDonnell declared yesterday.
Labour will tell the Queen, “We’re
taking over,” he said.
Conservatives said the shameless
plan showed Labour could not be
trusted with power.
Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said:
“We know that McDonnell is a revo-
lutionary Marxist and he clearly
believes if the Conservative govern-
ment fails a confidence motion that
the revolution will have started. We
know that McDonnell is a republican
and Corbyn has no respect for the
Queen at all or our constitution.
“What do you expect from Marxist
revolutionaries? For the sake of our
country and our children they must
never be within a sniff of power.”
Tory ex-minister Mark Francois
said: “If I were him, I would wait
until any votes have been counted
before crowing about the potential
outcome. He may discover he has
fewer supporters than he thinks.”
Scots Tory MP John Lamont said:
“It’s laughable that two men with
such derision for the Royal Family
should suddenly think they can call
the shots.”
Remainers have claimed the
Queen will have to sack Mr Johnson
if he refuses to quit in the event of
losing a Commons confidence vote.
Allies of the PM have suggested he
will hold out if rebel Tories join forces
with Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems
and independents to pass a no confi-
dence motion over a no-deal Brexit.
But it is believed Mr Johnson
would wait for an election to be trig-
gered and use his executive powers
to set the date of an election for after
the Brexit date of October 31, so
MPs cannot stop the process.
Mr McDonnell said: “No prime
minister can sustain themselves in
office when they no longer have a
majority in the House of Commons.
“I don’t want to drag the Queen
into this, but I’d be sending Jeremy
Corbyn in a cab to Buckingham
Palace to say we’re taking over.”
Mr McDonnell, speaking at a
Q&A at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, said Labour would vote for
a no confidence motion and would
push the case for a “caretaker
government”, backed by other
parties, possibly including the SNP.
The vote is expected to be tabled
when Parliament resumes after the
summer recess.
It follows reports that MPs plan to
use a parliamentary procedure
known as a Humble Address, which
would entail asking the Queen to
write to Mr Johnson, dismissing him
from office, despite the risk of drag-
ging her into a political crisis.
The reckless act threatens to
place the 93-year-old Queen in an
unprecedented constitutional crisis,
breaking the historical conventions
that normally keep the Crown out of
the political fray.
And the monarch has alwaysstudiously avoided any involvement
in politics.
Experts on Britain’s unwritten
rules are divided over what actions
the monarch would or should be able
to take if she is asked to sack the
Prime Minister.
Mr McDonnell insisted Labour
would reject a government of
“national unity” and instead push
Mr Corbyn to form a caretaker
government with the support of
other opposition parties and rebel
Tories, or go for a general election.
But he ruled out any formal deals
with the Lib Dems or SNP, saying the
only guarantee to rivals would be to
block a no-deal Brexit and organise a
fresh EU referendum.LEO McKINSTRY & OPINION: PAGE 12Oval Office call...Raab
Trump is keen to do a deal, says Raab
DONALD Trump has a “huge
appetite” for a free trade deal
after Britain exits the EU,
Dominic Raab said last night.
On his first US visit as
Foreign Secretary, Mr Raab
said he had a “preliminary
chat” with the President on
issues from security to trade.
The unscheduled meeting
will be seen as a sign that the
President is keen to repairrelations after a row over criti-
cal leaked diplomatic cables
from the British ambassador
in the dying days of Theresa
May’s premiership.
Mr Raab, who was in the
White House to meet Vice
President Mike Pence, said:
“He called me into the OvalOffice. He was effusive in his
warmth for the United
Kingdom. It’s amazing to hear
an American president talk
about our country in such
warm terms. He expressed his
high regard for Boris Johnson
as a Prime Minister.
“We talked about all the
things that we want to do
together in the post-Brexit
vision for the UK, whether it’sgetting a free trade deal done,
and there’s obviously going to
be a lot of work to make that
happen.”
Mr Raab is in North America
to “fire up” trade with non-EU
partners. He met Canadian
foreign minister Chrystia
Freeland in Toronto on
Tuesday, and is due to travel to
Mexico today to unveil a new
economic partnership.By Martyn Brown
Senior Political CorrespondentANTI-BREXIT
campaigner Gina Miller
has instructed lawyers to
pounce if Boris Johnson
loses a confidence vote.
The new Prime
Minister is expected to
face an attempt to bring
down his government
when MPs return to the
Commons next month.
Ms Miller, who
previously forced Theresa
May to change her Brexit
strategy with a legal
challenge, said it would
be “unlawful” if Mr
Johnson did not step
down if he lost the vote.
The arch-Remainer
dismissed the assessment
of retired Supreme Court
Judge Lord Sumption
that the Prime Minister
could delay an election
until after Brexit on
October 31, calling it a
“political opinion”.She said: “There is a
solid convention that a
prime minister losing a
vote of no confidence
must step down.”
MPs would have 14
days to decide on an
alternative government if
Mr Johnson lost but if
they failed, a general
election must be called.
Ms Miller has gone to
court and won a demand
for Parliament to give its
consent ahead of
triggering Article 50 to
begin the Brexit process.
She said: “While the
Fixed-term Parliaments
Act does not replace
convention, it can be said
the frustration of the
principle – which is
actually what we invoked
in my first case and we
won – would be in play
because Prime Minister
Johnson’s refusal to go
would frustrate the
operation and the
purpose of the Act, and
therefore be unlawful.”
Asked if she could be
granted a judicial review
in time, Ms Miller said
she had “already”
instructed her legal team.
“That is already in
motion and we would be
ready,” she said.Legal move... Gina MillerRemainer
Gina all set
if MPs lose
confidence
Unlawful
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