MPs blamed for letting
Boris Johnson nudge his deal forward but blocking his self-imposed deadline
With the complexity of a
Brexit delayed but not denied to cover, Wednesday’s papers worked hard to make sense of Boris Johnson’s latest setback, with Parliament bearing the brunt of the criticism.
The Daily Telegraph leads with “Brexit is in purgatory” after MPs thwarted Johnson’s “do or die” pledge to leave the EU at the end of October. Later versions of the story say the PM has “put
Britain on a general
election footing” after the latest setback, in which MPs refused to allow him to rush through the legislation without proper scrutiny. The Matt cartoon riffs off the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot.