PM says he will not ask EU to delay beyond 31 October as rebels seek to block moveBoris Johnson has issued a final Brexit ultimatum to rebel MPs by pledging to call a snap general election next month if the House of Commons pushes ahead with a bill tabled by...

Muddled, half-arsed, this was up there with any of May’s more pointless statements“Let’s stick together,” said Boris Johnson, oblivious to the irony of threatening to sling 20 MPs out of his own party for doing what he had repeatedly done only months before. As impromptu statements outside Downing Street go,...