The Prime Minister is expected to table a motion before the Commons on Monday in his second attempt to secure a snap general election following Remainers’ plans to stop a no deal Brexit scenario by forcing the Prime Minister to ask for an extension. But Tory Brexiteer Nigel Evans claims Boris Johnson might have up to “20 options” up his sleeves to prevent MPs from enforcing their new law against the Government as he revealed the Prime Minister is more likely to call for a vote of no confidence in his own Government or force an election via another means than to go to Brussels to ask for an Article 50 extension.

The joint executive secretary of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: “There are other options. We were permeating them or sort of wargaming in the House of Commons tea room on Thursday what they may be.

“And I think we whittled them down to about 20.

“There was one suggestion that even the Government could call a vote of no confidence in itself.

“There is the possibility that there will be a one-line bill that said that notwithstanding the Fixed Term Parliament Act the general election would be on October 15.”

I cannot see under the current circumstances Boris Johnson going to Brussels and asking for that extension

Nigel Evans

He added: ”I cannot see under the current circumstances Boris Johnson going to Brussels and asking for that extension.

“And, as Lord Sumption agreed, this thing of the Prime Minister standing with the people against their Parliament, you have to remember 400 MPs representing Leave seats voted Remain.

“And you really do have Parliament against the people.

“It’s not a great look and I’ll be standing alongside the Prime Minister in trying to deliver what the people voted for.”

It comes after reports the Prime Minister may send a second letter alongside one asking for an extension saying the Government does not wish for one to go beyond October 31.

On Monday, a Cabinet source told The Telegraph: “There is a prescribed letter that has to be sent, does that stop the Prime Minister sending other documents to the EU? I don’t think it does.

“A political explainer perhaps, as to where the Government’s policy is. It has to make clear that the Government is asking for an extension, but let’s not forget what the next step is.

“Once that is done, the Europeans are going to ask: ‘Why? What is the reason?’ [What] if the Government said: ‘We don’t have any reasons for an extension’?”

The source added this would offer a clear route to avoiding an extension: “There is a clear path now: the Europeans need to refuse an extension.”

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Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption said it would not be legal for Boris Johnson to apply for a Brexit extension while simultaneously trying to get the EU to reject it.

The senior judge was asked if it would be legal for the Prime Minister to ask for an extension while rubbishing the request at the same time.

He told Today: “No, of course, it wouldn’t. The Bill, or Act as it’s about to become, says that he’s got to apply for an extension.

“Not only has he got to send the letter, but he’s also got to apply for an extension.

“To send the letter and then try to neutralise it seems to me, plainly, a breach of the Act.

“What you’ve got to realise is the courts are not very fond of loopholes.”

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