Boris Skewered By His Strategy Backfiring?

Has Boris Johnson's outsmarted by MPs and been too clever for his own good?

By preventing the government from rushing headlong into a no deal situation MPs have narrowed down Boris Johnson's options but he has now boxed himself in by proroguing parliament which limits the time available to pass legislation that could enable a General Election.

The government's attempt to call a General Election via the Fixed Term Parliament Act has failed so other options would be needed but by suspending parliament next week there is unlikely to be sufficient time to do so beforehand meaning an election on 15th October could now be unlikely.

Boris Skewered By His Strategy Backfiring?

It's an unusual situation with the government wanting to call an election but as the government has no majority with the date entirely now in the control of the opposition who could wait until the most opportune time.

Sacking so many Conservative MPs having already lost your majority, proroguing parliament when you may need it to sit to pass your own laws, sacking staff and marching them off site by police and repeatedly misleading your own MPs hardly seems to be a winning strategy. Maybe Dominic Cummings isn't so good in government after all.