PM Johnson on the Irish Backstop

That would be the ultimate nuclear option- not only dragging the queen directly into things, but also ordering her to use the one power that all modern monarchs have avoided, even in the most strained of cases, because it basically invites a second civil war.

Sadly, I can’t rule it out completely, but the UK has more anti-democracy procedures to be called on before that.

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I’m not wanting to give them ideas, but unfortunately, they already know about these.

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