James O'Brien reacts to Johnson's latest Brexit move

News that Boris Johnson was to ask the Queen to suspend Parliament broke during James O'Brien's LBC radio show.

The then prime minister David Cameron promised an EU referendum in the run-up to the 2015 general election in a bid to stop Conservative voters from supporting Ukip. That plan worked when he won a slender majority - but having campaigned to Remain, he quit after Leave narrowly won the referendum the following year.

Now Boris Johnson is taking this desperate measure to dissuade Conservative voters from supporting the Brexit Party - once again a Tory PM appearing to put party before country.

Saying Mr Johnson's plan was to keep the Brexit Party voters happy, James said: "Keeping them sweet is the top priority.

"No-deal Brexit is what they are currently pretending that they wanted all along, despite the fact that their cheerleaders insisted throughout the referendum that is was either an impossibility or a conclusion devoutly to be resisted.

"It doesn't matter. All that matters is giving people who have no idea what's going on, but don't really like foreigners or Brussels or the EU - and can't tell you why - they've got to keep them sweet.

"How? Doesn't matter - just do something. So today, they'll be cheering the suspension of parliament without really understanding what matters, without really understanding what it means, without really understanding why it's happening, but it will be offered up as a way of edging ever closer to the only Brexit that remains in play.

"It's the Brexit that they can't describe because it's no deal, which means no detail. No-deal Brexit is a no-detail Brexit.

"Because when you ask for detail, the whole thing falls apart."