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Boris Johnson during his speech at the Tory Party conference this week
PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson will U-turn on his “do or die” promise to leave the European Union by Halloween and will ask for a delay if he fails to land a deal, court documents revealed today.
Mr Johnson has accepted the terms of the Benn Act, passed by Westminster last month, requiring him to seek a Brexit extension to January 31 if no deal has been agreed in Parliament to pass on to Brussels by October 19, according to a submission to the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court.
The Prime Minister had previously publicly claimed that the government would “obey the law and will come out on October 31” in any event, without providing specifications and fuelling speculation that he had identified a loophole around the Act.
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