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Labor opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked "premier" Boris Johnson to apologize to Isabel II for his "advice" to suspend the sessions of Parliament for five weeks, declared "illegal" by the Supreme Court. Downing Street confirmed that Johnson telephoned the Queen from New York as soon as she heard the ruling of the high court, although the call content was not specified.

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also accused Johnson of "cheating" the Queen at the time of requesting her authorization to cancel Westminster sessions from September 10 to October 14, in full countdown to the stipulated date for the Brexit Johnson anticipated his return from New York after his intervention at the United Nations and flew at dawn to London to arrive in time for the reopening of Parliament on Wednesday at 11.30 local time (12.30 in Spain).

"Johnson should not only apologize to the Queen, but to the entire British people for trying to cancel democracy at such a crucial time," Corbyn told BBC radio, hours before the start of the tumultuous parliamentary session called by the President of the House of Commons, John Bercow.

Humiliated by the verdict of the Supreme , among a chorus of voices calling for his resignation, the "premier" anticipated that he will give a speech at Westminster to advance his plans by October 31. According to The Daily Telegraph , the newspaper where he writes his columns weekly, Johnson plans to re-raise the holding of early elections on Thursday. The block opposition has nevertheless refused to support elections until the possibility of leaving the EU without an agreement on October 31 is removed from the table.

Parliament reopened its sessions with the traditional prayer, followed by 44 urgent questions to the Government: from the response the emergency created by the collapse of Thomas Cook (which left more than 150,000 Britons stranded in foreign lands) to new details on the preparations for EU exit without an agreement.

" Welcome back to work, " proclaimed John Bercow at the revival of Parliament's sessions, amid applause in the opposition seats. Bercow thanked the willingness of the parliamentarians to return to their posts in a matter of hours, after the verdict of the Supreme. The president of the House of Commons, however, did not take long to use himself thoroughly and reiterate his famous calls to "order" , amid an atmosphere almost as hot as September 9, when the sessions were suspended.

In the absence of Boris Johnson, who returned from New York in the middle of the morning and promised to address Parliament in the afternoon, the opposition offensive was launched against Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, who denounced the "cynical attacks" against the Government. Cox reiterated his conviction that the parliamentary suspension was "constitutional legal," although he refused to facilitate the internal reports he sent to the "premier."

Cox showed the willingness of the Government to "accept the impartial decision of the Supreme Court" and refused to qualify the verdict as "a constitutional coup," as stated by the spokesman for the Conservative Party in Parliament, the ultraconservative Jacob Rees-Mogg.

According to The Times, Cox stipulated that "there was nothing illegal or unconstitutional" in the decision to cancel the sessions for an extremely long period, before the traditional Queen's Speech.

The Supreme Court’s ruling has reopened internal divisions in the Conservative Party , including requests for resignation of Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and Special Adviser Dominic Cummings, former strategist of the Vote Leave campaign, the real brain behind the parliamentary suspension and the clash Front between Downing Street and Westminster

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