An unrepentant Boris Johnson faces raucous Parliament
Associated PressLONDON — An unrepentant Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed off cries of “Resign!” and dared his foes to try to topple him Wednesday at a raucous session of Parliament, a day after Britain’s highest court ruled he acted illegally in suspending the body ahead of the Brexit deadline. He said Johnson “thinks he is above the law” and has shown “no shred of remorse or humility.” “Have you no shame, prime minister?” said Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party’s leader in Parliament. The prime minister said a new election is the only way to unblock Britain’s “paralyzed Parliament.” “I think the people of this country have had enough of it. “This populist rhetoric is not only unfitting for a prime minister, but it is genuinely, seriously dangerous.” Labour lawmaker Paula Sherriff implored the prime minister to stop using “pejorative language.” She brought up the killing of Jo Cox, a legislator who was slain a week before the 2016 EU referendum by an attacker shouting, “Death to traitors!” Sharriff said many lawmakers were “subject to death threats and abuse every single day.” “And let me tell the prime minister that they often quote his words — ‘Surrender Act,’ ‘betrayal,’ ‘traitor’ — and I for one am sick of it,” she said.