At first, it seems fanciful. A backbench MP, Nick Boles, proposes to take power away from the government and place it in the hands of MPs, to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
Can one backbencher usurp power in this way? It’s ambitious. But under the British system, government reports to parliament, not the other way around.
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