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Comment: Has Brexit escapologist Johnson run out of tricks?

By Matthew Holehouse ( September 27, 2019, 15:27 GMT | Comment) -- Is Boris Johnson a latter-day Houdini, about to pull off a magical escape from legislative chains that bind him to request a Brexit extension instead of taking the UK crashing out of the EU? Unlikely. It's hard to see what wiggle room he has, whatever the rumor mill says, and the courts will move quickly to make him comply with the law drawn up earlier this month to thwart him.Boris Johnson came to power after convincing Conservative Party members that, Houdini-like, he could slip off the shackles that bound his predecessor and leap free from the EU on Oct. 31, deal or no deal....

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