Brexit was meant to grab power from hated bureaucrats in Brussels and hand it back to a sovereign British parliament. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ LEON NEAL
One can have a view about colonialism and its legacy but what can’t be denied is the uniqueness of the British constitutional arrangement. The idea of a constitutional order that endures for centuries without an actual written document is something to behold and unlikely to be seen in practice again.
So the Financial Times was hardly exaggerating when it likened Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision this week to suspend parliament, in an apparent move to force a hard Brexit and thwart MPs who stand in his way, to detonating a bomb. How this will end is anyone’s guess, but what is clear is that it has the capacity to inflict enormous damage and entrench divisions and demons unleashed by that fateful 2016 referendum.
“Uproar” and “outrage” were prominent in the front pages of the Guardian and Financial Times, while newspapers that have supported Brexit were more benign. Headlines in the latter perhaps showed their ambiguity, uneasy about the method though sympathetic towards the ultimate goal. So they went with terms such as “gloves are off” and “Johnson goes for broke”. Not condemnation, but hardly a ringing endorsement.
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