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| Boris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen over the advice he gave her over the five-week suspension of Parliament. | Boris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen over the advice he gave her over the five-week suspension of Parliament. |
| The prime minister was speaking after Scotland's highest civil court ruled on Wednesday the shutdown was unlawful. | The prime minister was speaking after Scotland's highest civil court ruled on Wednesday the shutdown was unlawful. |
| Asked whether he had lied to the monarch about his reasons for the suspension, he replied: "Absolutely not." | |
| He added: "The High Court in England plainly agrees with us, but the Supreme Court will have to decide." | |
| Labour has said it is "more important than ever" that Parliament is recalled after the government published its no-deal Brexit assessment. | |
| The Yellowhammer document - published on Wednesday after MPs forced its release - warned of food and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario. | |
| But Mr Johnson insisted the UK "will be ready" to leave the EU by the current 31 October deadline without an agreement "if we have to". | |
| "What you're looking at here is just the sensible preparations - the worst-case scenario - that you'd expect any government to do," he said. | |
| "In reality we will certainly be ready for a no-deal Brexit if we have to do it and I stress again that's not where we intend to end up." | |
| The current five week suspension of Parliament, a process known as proroguing, started in the early hours of Tuesday. | |
| MPs are not scheduled to return to Parliament until 14 October, when there will be a Queen's Speech outlining Mr Johnson's legislative plans. |