Angela Merkel told Boris Johnson that the United Kingdom will never leave the European Union unless Northern Ireland remains in a customs union with the EU! Downing Street has briefed to practically everybody that Merkel took the tough, uncompromising approach in a call with Johnson. But the tone of the briefing has left seasoned Merkel-watchers smelling a rat, because it sounds so unlike the German Chancellor’s style and approach.
No one, not even the Queen, can stand in the way of Johnson’s determination to take us out of the European Union! Downing Street sources tell the Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn that Boris Johnson will tell Her Maj that she cannot sack him even if parliament votes for an alternative prime minister during the 14-day period, citing the Lascelles Principles – the reasoning set out by Alan Lascelles, George VI’s last principal private secretary and Elizabeth II’s, way back in 1950, about the conditions in which the sovereign could refuse a sitting prime minister a dissolution.
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