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Premier Boris Johnson temporarily suspended Parliament for five weeks after a cascade of humiliating defeats in his very personal pulse with Westminster. The parliamentary "bolt" was preceded by the announcement of the resignation of John Bercow, the charismatic president of the House of Commons, world famous for his calls to "order", who warned of the risk of a "degradation" of Parliament in the midst of chaos of Brexit.

"We are facing a shameful decision," denounced opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who forced an urgent debate and accused the prime minister of "running away" to avoid parliamentary control. Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, recently expelled from the Conservative Party for vetoing Johnson's extreme Brexit, accused his former leader of not respecting democratic conventions and secured support for a motion to force the government to publish all internal documents on the exit of the EU without agreement and on the Westminster lock .

Johnson's controversial decision, using the same and archaic appeal of King Charles I to circumvent his opponents in 1628, is part of his strategy to eliminate new parliamentary pitfalls before October 31. The block opposition, however, forced the entry into force of the law to veto Brexit without agreement, which forces Johnson to ask for a new three-month extension if on October 19 he has not reached a compromise with Brussels.

In the last act of Parliament, at midnight and in the middle of a noisy exchange of expletives and boos between the seats of the Government and the opposition, Boris Johnson anticipated that he will not ask for a new Brexit extension and threw the glove at Jeremy Corbyn: "The surrender law has been passed, you have done everything possible to sabotage the negotiations and now you must support an election."

"I will not approve the dissolution of Parliament as long as the" no agreement "option is on the table," Corbyn said, at the time of confirming the opposition's block vote against Johnson's last and desperate attempt. After forcing the temporary suspension of the sessions of the Chambers of Commons, authorized by Queen Elizabeth II and ratified as "legal" by the courts, the premier faces an increasingly limited range of options in the next five weeks.

Hours before suspending Parliament, Johnson unmarked himself with his first official trip as prime minister to Ireland where he printed a conciliatory turn in his stance towards Brexit, to the point of ensuring he "overwhelmingly prefers" the EU's exit with an agreement before October 18.

"A lack of agreement will be a failure that we will all be responsible for," Johnson said to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. Reluctant so far to approach Dublin, Johnson decided to cross the Irish Sea in search of a lifeguard in the middle of the storm caused by himself with the repeated threat of an EU exit "to the brave".

Varadkar stressed that London's refusal to accept the "safeguard", as an insurance policy to ensure that the border remains open between the two Irlandas, remains the main obstacle. "Without a safeguard there is no agreement," reiterated the Irish Prime Minister, who said that Brussels will need "a good reason" to grant the United Kingdom a new extension of the EU's exit.

The news bomb of the day has been in any case the announcement of the resignation of speaker John Bercow, accused by his former conservative colleagues (he resigned his militancy for the sake of impartiality) of having allowed an anti-Brexit bias in the heated sessions of the British Parliament during the last three years.

Bercow announced that he will leave the post of president of the House of Commons as late on October 31, or even earlier if a new general election is finally called. Alluding to a promise he had made to his family, the former conservative took the unanimous applause of the opposition, while a part of the deputies of which his formation was decided to stay in their seats and punish him with his mutism.

The opposition parties got rid of praise for him, and that is that Bercow, in addition to a personality and voice that have made him internationally famous, has been characterized by his reformist measures and for not hesitating to face the successive governments when They have tried to skip legislative control. Denounced by the most bitter brexiteros, who consider him one of those responsible for the fact that the United Kingdom has not yet left the European Union, he has always defended that the only thing he has sought during his term has been to ensure that Parliament has the capacity to Decide about the future of the country.

The harassment and demolition of Bercow was in any case one of Boris Johnson's objectives since his arrival in Downing Street. Over the weekend, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industry, Andrea Leadsom, led a campaign to announce that the Conservative Party would present a new candidate in Buckingham, its constituency.

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