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		</div><p>Boris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen in order to secure the suspension of Parliament.</p>
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<p>Scotland’s highest civil court ruled on Wednesday that the five-week prorogation was unlawful because it was obtained for the “improper purpose of stymying Parliament”.</p>
<p>However, the Prime Minister insisted he had sought the suspension so that the Government could set out a new legislative programme in a Queen’s Speech on October 14.</p>
<figure id="attachment_139907" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139907" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-139907" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/62D3303C-793B-4808-9ECF-893F2B901924.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-139907" class="wp-caption-text">Boris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen over the suspension of Parliament</figcaption></figure>
<p>Opposition MPs have argued that the real reason was to stop Parliament holding the Government to account over its Brexit plans.</p>
<p>But, asked during a visit to mark London International Shipping Week whether he had lied to the monarch in order to obtain the prorogation, Mr Johnson replied: “Absolutely not.”</p>
<p>He said the High Court in England had taken the opposite view to the Court of Session in Edinburgh and that the case would now be decided in the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>“The High Court in England plainly agrees with us but the Supreme Court will have to decide. We need a Queen’s Speech, we need to get on and do all sorts of things at a national level,” he said.</p>
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<p>Opposition parties fear Mr Johnson is determined to take Britain out of the EU on October 31, despite the Benn Act, which says the Government must seek a further delay if there is no agreement on a deal with the EU.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister insisted he remained confident that it would be possible to reach a deal in time for it to be agreed at the EU summit on October 17 and 18.</p>
<p>“I’m very hopeful that we will get a deal, as I say, at that crucial summit. We’re working very hard – I’ve been around the European capitals talking to our friends,” he said.</p>
<p>“I think we can see the rough area of a landing space, of how you can do it – it will be tough, it will be hard, but I think we can get there.”</p>
<p>However, the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said they were still waiting to see proposals from the UK side to resolve the fraught issue of the Northern Ireland backstop.</p>
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<p>“We are still ready to examine objectively any concrete and legally operational proposals from the UK,” he told reporters in Brussels.</p>
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