The Queen has approved a request by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend Parliament just weeks before the Brexit deadline on October 31.

The extended suspension comes just a week after MPs return from their summer recess and is intended for the Government to hold a Queen's Speech - laying out their plans - on October 14.

This means Parliament will not sit for the majority of September and the first two weeks of October, returning after the Queen's Speech.

MPs are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the Prime Minister taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on October 31.

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