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After the reopening of the British Parliament, the various government ministers spent the day responding to a barrage of urgent questions from members of parliament. Last to intervene, Boris Johnson had to explain himself to a House ready to fight.
With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix
John Bercow sounded the end of recess. In his inimitable style, he welcomed the deputies back " at their place of work " under the clamor of many parliamentarians who, as the speaker of the House, were not going to sulk their pleasure after this spectacular victory following the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Boris Johnson's decision to suspend the work of Parliament.
The first urgent question was asked by the Scottish SNP party to the government's general counsel on the reasons for the suspension of parliament decided in August. The answer is that the decision was made " in good faith " and that the government thought the suspension was " legal and constitutional ", but that it accepted the Supreme Court's judgment.
MEPs also demanded that the Prime Minister clarify his plans to secure a new withdrawal agreement with Brussels before the summit of 17-18 October.
Johnson accuses MPs of wanting to sabotage Brexit
Boris Johnson landed in the morning in London after shortening his stay in New York where he was for the UN General Assembly. Once before MPs in the early evening, he fought hard for his decision to suspend Parliament and immediately accused MPs of seeking to sabotage negotiations on Brexit. He also attacked the Supreme Court, repeating that the judges had made the wrong decision.
Prime Minister used extremely aggressive language to describe parliamentarians, " cowards who capitulated to Brussels ", and he presented himself as the victim of an elite, claiming that unlike MPs his government would not betray the voters who voted to leave the EU.
Furious MPs
Boris Johnson concluded by defying the opposition to call early elections, but in return he faced an outburst of remonstrances from members absolutely furious. First the leader of the Labor opposition, Jeremy Corbyn who accused him in fact not to seek to negotiate a new agreement with Brussels, but want a Brexit without disastrous agreement calling him once again to resign.
MPs also asked about another potentially dangerous case for Boris Johnson. He is suspected of having a conflict of interest and would have favored the business of a young woman, a close friend of the leader when he was mayor of London. He would have abused his position for Jennifer Arcuri to obtain significant funding to develop her company. An investigation was opened by the London City Hall and the affair does not leave the newspaper anymore.