Johnson ‘whipping up riot fears to avoid Brexit extension’

Labour claims that PM is aiming to invoke emergency powers using the Civil Contingencies ActBoris Johnson is whipping up fears of rioting and deaths on the streets if Brexit is not delivered by 31 October so that he can try to invoke emergency powers and avoid extending the UK’s EU membership beyond that date, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, claimed on Saturday.After a week in which the prime minister was accused by MPs from all the main parties, including senior Tories, of