The Charge of the Brexit Brigade
The Charge was going fine without Parliament. Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the UK, was talking stoutly about getting a “better deal” from Brussels and removing the Irish backstop, which was the part of Theresa May’s deal with the EU that hard-line Brexiteers hated the most. His gambit was to prorogue Parliament to silence those pesky Remainers and run out the clock by simply surviving. A “no deal” Brexit is the default…
