BORIS Johnson has said he “strongly disagrees” with the Supreme Court’s brutal ruling against his decision to suspend parliament for five weeks but will respect it.
Pushing back on the unanimous decision, and offering no hint of a resignation, the Prime Minister told the BBC he didn’t think it was “right”.
He also said there would still be a Queen’s Speech - which would require a new prorogation.
Speaking in New York, where he is due to meet Donald Trump and other leaders around the UN Climate Summit, he said: “Obviously this is a verdict that we will respect. We respect the judicial process. I have to say I strongly disagree with what the justices have found.
“I don’t think that it’s right, but we will go ahead and of course parliament will come back.
“I do think there’s a good case for getting on with a Queen’s Speech anyway, and we’ll do that.
“But I think the most important thing is we get on and deliver Brexit on October 31.
“Clearly the claimants in this case are determined to try to frustrate that and to stop that.
“It would be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective, which the people want delivered, more difficult. But we’ll get on.”
When told the court found the prorogation unlawful and undemocratic, Mr Johnson said: “I’m not certain that the justices did say that. I think that they certainly thought that the prorogation we chose was not something they could approve of.
“It’s an unusual judgment to come to.”
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