The Independent - 06.08.2019

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TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

Forcing no-deal Brexit will


create ‘constitutional crisis’


Johnson accused of acting like a dictator after Downing Street says UK

will leave EU ‘whatever the circumstances’

Johnson, in Lincolnshire yesterday, dismissed he was preparing for election (AFP)


ANDREW WOODCOCK


POLITICAL EDITOR


Downing Street has sparked warnings of a “full blown constitutional crisis” by asserting that the UK will
leave the European Union on 31 October “whatever the circumstances”.


The comment appeared to confirm reports that Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser Dominic Cummings


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