US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to express support for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend the British Parliament in a push to deliver Brexit by the end of October. POTUS has said that opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will have a hard time seeking to launch a no-confidence vote as the incumbent government is “what Britain has been looking for”.
This comes as Jeremy Corbyn said he will try to bring legislation to Parliament next week in an attempt to thwart Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to suspend Parliament and then bring a no-confidence vote to Parliament.
He said Mr Johnson's move was "an outrage and a threat to our democracy".
Mr Corbyn said 14 October was not the proper time for a Queen's Speech and Mr Johnson needs to be held to account by Parliament.
He said: "He needs to be held to account by parliament - not by shutting down parliament but by attending parliament and answering the questions. When parliament does meet on his timetable very briefly next week, the first thing we'll do is attempt legislation to prevent what he's doing and secondly we'll challenge him in a motion of confidence at some point".
In June 2016 the people of Britain voted narrowly in a referendum in favour of exiting the European Union.
Since then Parliament has been deadlocked about how to carry out Brexit and Boris Johnson appears to have run out of patience.
On Wednesday, 28 August, Mr Johnson wrote to Tory MPs explaining why he was taking the exceptional step of suspending Parliament.
But the Speaker of Parliament, John Bercow said the move was a "constitutional outrage", a position echoed by the former Chancellor, Philip Hammond, who said it was "profoundly undemocratic".
Mr Johnson has a working majority of just one seat in the 650-seat Parliament and several Tory MPs are said to be considering supporting a vote of no confidence in him.
Dominic Grieve, a Remainer Tory MP, said he thought a no-confidence vote was more likely than Mr Johnson getting his way in Parliament.
He said: "If it is impossible to prevent prorogation, then I think it's going to be very difficult for people like myself to keep confidence in the government."
While suspending parliament ahead of a Queen's Speech is the historical norm in Britain, the decision to limit parliamentary scrutiny weeks before the country's most contentious policy decision in decades prompted an immediate outcry.