The UK's PM Johnson was forced to cut short a visit to the UNGA in New York, flying back to London on a red-eye just before Parliament reopened.
LONDON — Despite the best efforts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the doors of the British Parliament were thrust open again Wednesday, inviting some of the most raucous scenes ofJohnson suspended Parliament earlier this month, but a crushing, historic decision by the Supreme Court overturned that Tuesday,The prime minister was forced to cut short a visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, flying back to London on a red-eye just before Parliament reopened.
Once in the chamber, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox branded Parliament a"disgrace" for blocking the government's Brexit plans, as well as the early general election that Johnson says he wants. Boris Johnson walks off stage at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.However — aside from a humiliating symbolic blow for the prime minister — it's not entirely clear what impact the decision will have on Johnson, Brexit, or"This extra parliamentary time is going to be filled, there's no doubt about that," Dominic Grieve, a former Conservative Party lawmaker, told NBC News.
In another political era, such a scathing judgement from the highest court in the land might have been expected to produce resignations and perhaps an implosion of the government itself.
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