Boris Johnson asks Queen to suspend UK Parliament ahead of Brexit: Live updates - CNN International

British opposition politicians (and some from Boris Johnson's own Conservative Party) are furious about his decision to suspend Parliament.

Scotland First Minister and the leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon said:

Unless MPs come together to stop him next week, today will go down in history as a dark one indeed for UK democracy.

Diane Abbott, a prominent Labour Member of the Parliament, called Johnson's move "a coup."

The leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson said her party will strongly oppose the move.

Another Liberal Democrat, Chuka Umunna said Johnson was "behaving like a tin pot dictator."

London Mayor Sadiq Khan weighed in by saying the Prime Minister was "running roughshod over our democracy in order to ruin the life chances of future generations."

The criticism wasn't limited to those from opposition parties. Some members of Johnson's Conservatives also spoke up:

Conservative rebel Dominic Grieve, who opposes a no-deal Brexit, called UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament an “outrageous act.”
Philip Hammond, former Treasury chief and a senior Conservative Party member, said preventing the Parliament from "holding the government to account at a time of national crisis" would cause a constitutional crisis.

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