The governments decision. What he is doing is he is suspending parliament when it should be sitting because he is determined to do something for which he has no mandate at all. Sterling has fallen in response to the announcement. It lost around a cent against both the us dollar and the euro, due to increased fears of a no deal brexit. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The queen is to be asked by the government to suspend Parliament Days after mps return to work, and a matter of weeks before the brexit deadline. Parliament will return from recess on the 3rd of september, and could be prorogued or suspended only a week later, on the 10th. Thats expected to make way for Boris Johnsons new administration to hold a queens speech laying out the governments future plans on m october. But it means mps are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the Prime Minister taking the uk out of the eu without a deal on 31 october. John bercow give his reaction in the last few min
Nhs and no deal preparations. This week he lent to the International Stage meeting europes top two power brokers, but without a deal in sight. He wants them to know parliament wont stop brexit and this weekend again warned mps from doing that. Writing, the so called effo rts doing that. Writing, the so called efforts to prevent no deal are in fa ct efforts to prevent no deal are in fact making no deal more likely. But todays sunday times leak of classical classified documents showing their contingency plans for ano showing their contingency plans for a no deal make for painful reading. A risk the country should not be taken, according to a former head of the Civil Service who now advises labour and has called for a second brexit referendum. Part of serving the government of the day is to give them honest advice of the risks. In my personal view, these risks are com pletely my personal view, these risks are completely insane for this country to be taking. In the Cabinet Office document
Well be live on the us east coast as Hurricane Dorian brings flooding. Meanwhile in the bahamas, the situation is desperate. Record breaking winds and massive storm surges flipped cars and even shipping containers far onto the land. But all around here is an area that is been totally leveled. Thats been totally leveled. And facebook launches a dating service in the us well be live in new york to hear all about it. If youre confused by brexit, if youre struggling to keep up with all the developments, dont worry, were all feeling like that. But dont worry, were going to take you through another mind bending day in british politics and why it matters so much. Before we get into today a reminder that already this week, borisjohnson has lost his parliamentary majority, kicked out 21 mps from his own party some of them giants of the conservative party, lost an mp to the liberal democrats, lost an effort to call an election, been defeated in 4 parliamentary votes thats every one hes faced as
And coming up on sportsday on bbc news england are bowled out on the first days play of the second test at lords, leaving them plenty to do if they are to level the ashes series. Good evening. The extent of britains drug crisis has been laid bare in the starkest terms, as new figures reveal drug related deaths have hit appalling levels. The number of people dying as a result of substance misuse, mainly heroin and cocaine, has jumped by the biggest annual rate since records began. The statistics for england and wales show a 16 increase in overall drug poisoning deaths, and comes weeks after record figures too, for scotland. Its the north east of england that has the highest number of fatalities from illicit drugs per head of the population, followed by wales and the north west. In a moment well have more on the dramatic rise in drug deaths, but first, weve been reporting on one of the key factors behind the crisis throughout this week the supply of drugs from britains cities, to its tow