Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his special advisor Dominic Cummings, 10 Downing Street, London, September 3, 2019 (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty)
In a 25-minute discussion, I chatted with talkRADIO’s Darryl Morris on Friday about the Queen’s Speech, the Johnson Government’s statement of its intentions after victory in last week’s UK General Election.
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My emphasis is on the need to hold Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose history as well as his recent campaign is marked by deception, and the Government to account over its claims and ambitions. That includes Brexit and the National Health Service, where Johnson has been willing to lie about the situation and his plans.
We note measures in the Queen’s Speech to sideline Parliament and possibly the courts as checks on the Government, and we look at proposals such as the stripping of workers’ rights and environmental protections from a Brexit deal and restriction of voters through a law over photo ID.
Boris Johnson, advised by Dominic Cummings, is lifting rhetoric from the Trump playbook: the idea of the “People’s Government”, the idea that you don’t really need Parliament, that you don’t need the courts, the idea that you only need Johnson and his inner circle.
The idea is that the Executive should not be bound by other parts of the UK system.
We also have a brief review of Donald Trump’s impeachment and what happens next.
