Name: Why Boris Johnson faces five key Brexit questions | FT
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Boris Johnson's new government is going hell

The new British prime minister has entered office

saying he will only talk about a new Brexit deal with the EU

if it doesn't include that troublesome Irish border

So Mr Johnson, instead, is ramping up preparations

to leave on October the 31 without a deal.

But many MPs in parliament aren't happy with this

and are trying to challenge Mr Johnson's new policy.

whether they have to bring down his government,

whether they can force his hand and, most importantly,

whether they have the power to stop a no-deal Brexit.

are becoming increasingly convinced the only way

to stop a no-deal Brexit is to bring down

Mr Johnson only has a working majority in parliament of one.

vote when parliament returns in September

say what the prime minister should do, not what he must do.

Normally, if Mr Johnson lost a confidence vote then

he would quit and make way for someone else.

He's not interested in what parliament or MPs think.

Instead, he's only focused on delivering Brexit

In his own words - come what may, do or die.

If Mr Johnson loses that confidence vote in September,

there's a 14-day period which would allow another government

If nothing happens in that time, then it's

back over to the prime minister to decide

But Boris Johnson doesn't want an election

knowing that his Conservative party would

be under threat from Nigel Farage's Brexit party.

So you could imagine Mr Johnson pushing the date back as far as

possible until after October the 31st, when the UK automatically

If the general election is held after the UK has

comes down to how disruptive a no-deal Brexit is.

Mr Johnson would be betting that the disruption could

be contained, and he would pitch an election as parliament

The people who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum,

and parliament, the MPs who are trying to stop him

The Liberal Democrats, on the other hand,

would run on a strongly pro-Remain platform, even

offer to rejoin the EU to avoid the impact of a no-deal Brexit.

Well, they would try to fight on domestic issues

because Brexit is a very complicated matter for them

because they don't want to lose the portion

of their Leave voters in the north and their Remain voters

So if we have that election the pollsters

Nobody really knows who will be able to form

When the UK triggered Article 50 back in March 2017

it started a countdown clock until the UK leaves the EU.

But Mr Johnson has no intention of doing that.

He also has no intention of invoking Article 50.

So in this instance, unless another prime minister

will be leaving at the end of October, regardless of what