Ex Conservative MPs Philip Hammond and Amber Rudd are understood to be plotting an impeachment of the Prime Minister that could see either of them installed in Number 10. One Cabinet minister told sources in the media: “It would be a legal coup. There is nothing we can do to stop it.”
Ministers have apparently gotten wind of the plot circulating in the Commons, where MPs are sitting despite the Tory conference going ahead in Manchester. They believe a cross-party group of lawyer MPs want to launch a legal action similar to the attempt to impeach US President Donald Trump in Washington by the opposition in Congress.
The saboteurs could use an emergency Commons motion to try to force the Prime Minister out of office only with the help of widely derided Speaker John Bercow. They are understood to be planning to use Mr Johnson’s threat to defy the so-called Surrender Act designed to block a no-deal Brexit as the basis for tabling the motion.
The motion would be worded in order to facilitate the sacking of the Prime Minister while recognising that his successor must be another Tory MP because the party is the largest in the Commons.
The Cabinet minister spoke out saying:
“Bercow has bent the rules to allow SO24 motions to be used in this way. It is a constitutional outrage. He is completely out of control.
If this coup succeeds it would be a disaster for democracy.
We know Bercow has overruled advice for the Commons clerks that S024 debates should not be used in this way but he has told them to f*** off. That’s the way he operates,” the Cabinet minister said.”
Impeachment is an ancient procedure for Parliament to launch a prosecution against an individual suspected of “high crimes and misdemeanours”.
The first recorded use of the procedure in England was in 1376, when Lord Latimer, the Lord Chamberlain was impeached for taking bribes and pocketing fines. They are expected to use the verdict of The Supreme Court to argue that the actions of the Johnson Government have been ‘unlawful’.
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