Daily Mail, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page
QQQTrump: PM
is ‘great
one’ the
UK needs
DEMAND TO QUEEN
as a new session of Parliament
shows a complete ignorance of
the way our constitution works.
‘But it also shows he has been
completely wrong-footed. Here
we have a man who cannot stand
the Queen and wants to get rid
of her asking her to use constitu-
tional powers he does not
respect in order to overrule a
democratically elected govern-
ment. It is tokenistic nonsense.’
Tory MP Paul Masterton, who
is against No Deal, dismissed
suggestions that the Queen’s
decision amounted to a coup.
He said: ‘We’re sitting next
week. We’ll be sitting between
EU Council [in mid-October]and the 31st. Is this confronta-
tional? Yes. Is it controversial?
Yes. Is it “suspending Parliament
to force through No Deal on the
31st”? No. If new deal done,
there’s time for MPs who want
to stop No Deal to approve it.’
But former Labour front-
bencher Kate Osamor, a close
ally of Mr Corbyn, suggested Her
Majesty should have blocked Mr
Johnson’s request, saying: ‘The
Queen did not save us.’
Miss Osamor later suggested
that the monarchy should be
abolished in the wake of the
Queen’s decision to accept Mr
Johnson’s request. She said:
‘The Queen should look at whathappened to her cousin Tino ex
King of Greece when you enable
a Right-wing coup! Monarchy
abolished!’
Last night, Downing Street
sources pointed out that Labour
MPs have been demanding a
Queen’s Speech for months after
branding Theresa May’s admin-
istration a ‘zombie government’
that had run out of legislation.
Governments typically hold a
Queen’s Speech every year, with
Parliament suspended for a few
days beforehand. But the cur-
rent session has been running
since June 2017, making it the
longest since the 17th Century.
Last night, Shadow ChancellorJohn McDonnell accused the
Prime Minister of putting the
Queen in a difficult position.
He told Channel 4 News: ‘I do
have sympathy for her. I’ve
always had a lot of respect for the
Queen, but I’m not a monarchist
I’m a republican. The issue is, as
the constitution now stands, she
has to abide by what the Prime
Minister brings to her.
‘It is the Prime Minister who
has put her in this position and
he shouldn’t have done that. I
am a republican saying to the
Prime Minister, just behave like
a Prime Minister and not in this
reckless and irresponsible way.’
[email protected]DONALD Trump backed Boris John-
son’s decision to suspend Parliament
yesterday – and mocked Jeremy Cor-
byn by saying it would be ‘very hard’
for the Labour leader to stop it.
The US President reaffirmed his
backing for Mr Johnson on Twitter
just days after the two men met at
the G7 summit in Biarritz.
He wrote: ‘Would be very hard for
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Brit-
ain’s Labour Party, to seek a no-con-
fidence vote against new prime min-
ister Boris Johnson, especially in light
of the fact that Boris is exactly what
the UK has been looking for and will
prove to be “a great one!” Love UK.’
In response to the tweet, Mr Corbyn
said: ‘I think what the US President is
saying is that Boris Johnson is exactly
what he has been looking for, a com-
pliant Prime Minister who will hand
Britain’s public services and protec-
tions over to US corporations in a
free trade deal.’
Other Labour MPs joined in the
attack on Mr Trump. David Lammy
tweeted: ‘Stay out of our politics.
Stay out of the UK. Britain does not
need input from racists.’
And Shadow Home Secretary DianeAbbott tweeted: ‘Boris’s number one
supporter. That is why Boris has to be
stopped. Block The Coup.’
Mr Trump has traded barbs with Mr
Corbyn on many occasions, and the
Labour leader joined protests against
his state visit in June.
The President lavished praise on Mr
Johnson at the G7 summit over the
bank holiday weekend.
He said: ‘I really believe that Boris
Johnson will be a great Prime Minis-
ter. We really like each other, and we
had a great two and a half days.
‘I have been waiting for him to be
Prime Minister for about six years. I
told him, “What took you so long?”’
But Mr Trump also warned the
Prime Minister he would struggle to
reach a Brexit agreement with EU
negotiators in Brussels.
He said: ‘Boris has to try and do
something with Brexit – it’s very
tough. I deal with the EU – it’s a very
strong group of people, they have
their ideas and they’re not easy to
deal with, I will tell you.
‘The EU is very tough to make deals
with – just ask Theresa May.’
In response to the comments, Mr
Johnson said that, while the EU were
tough negotiators, ‘that doesn’t
mean we won’t do a deal’.Job done: Mr
Rees-Mogg at
Aberdeen
airport after
going to
Balmoral
yesterday. As
he is often
compared to
Bertie
Wooster, it
seemed apt
he should be
carrying an
homage to
PG Wodehouse
for the
journey, right‘Boris’s number
one supporter’By Daniel Martin
Policy Editor