The Independent - 06.08.2019

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

Olesya Dmitracova

Who would be hurt

most in a recession?

Andrew Buncombe

Trump blames video

games but not guns

Jenny Eclair

Menopause should not

be demonised

Jonathan Liew

England’s Ashes

summer is in a spin

Record numbers arrested in Hong Kong

Police fire teargas and rubber bullets at protesters yesterday as 82 were detained during a citywide strike

Don’t act like a dictator, MPs

warn Johnson

No 10 insists parliament cannot delay Brexit even for an election

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 believes the prime

minister will be able to force

through no deal even if the

House of Commons votes to

bring down his government.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

set the scene for an attempt to

oust Mr Johnson as soon as

MPs return from summer

break on 3 September, saying

he will call a “very early” vote

of no confidence at a time

“when we can win it”.