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		</div><p>Rival Tory leadership contenders have turned on Dominic Raab after he refused to rule out suspending Parliament to push through Brexit by the end of October.</p>
<p>In the first televised debate of the campaign, the five candidates taking part all agreed the next prime minister had to take Britain out of the EU.</p>
<p>But there were sharp differences as to how that could be achieved.</p>
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<p>Channel 4, which staged the debate, put an empty podium for front runner Boris Johnson who refused to take part.</p>
<p>He was taunted about his absence by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt who said it raised questions about his ability to take on the job of prime minister.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t deliver democracy by trashing democracy. We are not selecting a dictator</p>
<p>“Where is Boris? If his team won’t allow him out with five fairly friendly colleagues, how is is he going to deal with 27 European countries?” he said.</p>
<p>The sharpest early exchanges were however dominated by Mr Raab’s insistence the option of proroguing Parliament should remain on the table.</p>
<p>“I don’t think it is likely but it is not illegal,” he said.</p>
<p>“The moment that we telegraph to the EU we are not willing to walk away at the end of October we take away our best shot of a deal.”</p>
<p>International Development Secretary Rory Stewart said shutting down Parliament was “undemocratic” and “deeply disturbing” and would not work.</p>
<figure id="attachment_134142" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-134142" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-134142" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FBDD62A3-BC5E-41DD-B814-98B2C3CA669F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" data-wp-pid="134142" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-134142" class="wp-caption-text">Candidates in the Channel 4 leadership debate</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Parliament is not a building. Parliament is our democratic representatives and they will meet regardless of what the prime minister wants,” he said to applause from the studio audience.</p>
<p>Mr Hunt said it was the “wrong thing to do” while Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: “You don’t deliver democracy by trashing democracy. We are not selecting a dictator.”</p>
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<p>Mr Raab warned that Parliament could not stop a determined prime minister, saying: “It is near impossible to stop a government that is serious.”</p>
<p>That drew a sharp retort from Environment Secretary Michael Gove who told him: “I will defend our democracy.</p>
<blockquote><p>I would ensure we have a full stop to the backstop</p></blockquote>
<p>“You cannot take Britain out of the EU against the will of Parliament.”</p>
<p>All of the candidates, except for Mr Stewart, said that they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal.</p>
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<p>The International Development Secretary said that it was not a credible threat because the EU was aware of the damage it would do the UK.</p>
<p>“We are not going to get a different deal from Europe,” he said.</p>
<p>“A no-deal Brexit is a complete nonsense. It is going to deeply damage our economy,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr Javid said it was a “complete nonsense” to take away the threat of no deal although he acknowledged not enough had been done to prepare for it.</p>
<p>“The number one mistake that was made was not planning for no deal. I have never walked into a room without the ability to walk away without signing.”</p>
<p>Mr Hunt said the next prime minister had to be prepared to sit down and negotiate with Brussels to get a better deal than that negotiated by Theresa May.</p>
<p>“It is fundamentally pessimistic to say we cannot do that,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr Gove said that he had the experience to renegotiate the controversial Northern Ireland backstop which proved the key stumbling block to getting Mrs May’s deal through Parliament.</p>
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