A mandate for no-deal Brexit has never existed – this is classic Boris Johnson revisionism

Editorial: MPs should work across party lines to ensure any election is held before 31 October so the public have a real choice, not a false one

When parliament returns from its summer break on Tuesday for a momentous week, Boris Johnson will have the right to state his case for the UK to leave the EU with or without a deal on 31 October.

However, he is not within his rights to offer MPs the false choice he posed in The Sunday Times: “Are you going to side with Jeremy Corbyn and those who want to cancel the referendum?

“Are you going to side with those who want to scrub the democratic verdict of the people – and plunge this country into chaos? Or are you going to side with those of us who want to get on, deliver on the mandate of the people and focus with absolute, laser-like precision on the domestic agenda?”