Opponents of no deal ‘have just weeks’ to plot blocking strategy

Senior MPs from all parties admit they need to thrash out action plan by end of August. Even before Boris Johnson had been to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday afternoon to accept the Queen’s invitation to form a government, some very senior Conservative colleagues with whom he had once sat in the same cabinet were already plotting with Labour’s high command on how to stop the new prime minister taking the UK out of the European Union without a deal. In the early afternoon of that day,