Boris Johnson risked infuriating his own MPs by refusing to answer questions on his plan to break international law over Brexit.
The Prime Minister called an all-hands virtual meeting as backbench resistance to plans to tear up parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement threatened to grow into a full scale revolt.
But the video conference call was plagued by technical issues, with the Prime Minister’s connection dropping out entirely at one point, leaving around 250 MPs waiting for him to rejoin the call.
Mr Johnson, a former newspaper columnist, urged MPs to “understand his point of view, not the polemic view in the papers”, according to ITV News.
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