Last night, Parliament voted in favour of a Brexit deal for the first time since the start of the negotiations with the EU. However, only 20 minutes later, MPs voted against the Prime Minister’s timetable to get the bill through the House of Commons. The Opposition claimed there was not enough time to properly scrutinise the 110-page Bill.

EU leaders are now considering whether to delay the Brexit deadline beyond Halloween, which the Prime Minister was forced under law to request in a letter over the weekend.

However, Mr Johnson and his colleagues do not want the date postponed as far ahead as the end of January. If EU leaders offer this, the Prime Minister is widely expected to call for a general election.

House of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg called the situation “purgatory”.

Discussing the current state of Parliament with Express.co.uk, famed constitutional historian David Starkey criticised lawmakers, claiming all they can do is “agree on nothing”.

In particular, Mr Starkey launched a ferocious attack on the Liberal Democrats, accusing them of being an anti-democratic “creed”.

Liberal Democrat members overwhelmingly voted in favour of campaigning to revoke Article 50 at the next general election, during their party conference in Bournemouth last month.

Previously, the party was backing a second referendum, saying they would campaign to Remain.

Since then, the pro-EU party has come under fiery criticism, especially after its leader, Jo Swinson declared a Lib Dem government would cancel Brexit without a second referendum while at the same time insisting the SNP could not declare Scottish independence if the party wins a Holyrood majority.

Mr Starkey said: “They are genuinely an extremist party.

“Liberalism is an extremist, anti-popular, anti-democratic creed.”

The historian noted that if people would like a sense of what a real liberal is, Sarah Wollaston would be the perfect example.

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He explained: “The member for Totnes, who was one of David Cameron’s open primary Tories.

“She [Sarah Wollastone] left the Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Democrats.

“Did you see the astonishing phrase she used to describe changing her party?

“‘It was like casting off a dirty raincoat.'”

Launching a fiery attack on the former Tory MP, Mr Starkey continued: “The degree of snobbery, of contempt for your electors, of contempt for the party workers who have worked for you, of contempt for your former colleagues.

“That is a remark that is so disgusting. When the general election campaign comes, that remark should be there in flaming letters.

“‘This is what these people really think of you. You are a dirty raincoat. Because you don’t actually believe as we believe.”

He concluded: “Liberalism is utterly totally intolerant.”

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In Totnes, Sarah Wollaston left the Tories for Change UK, then joined the pro-EU Lib Dems.

However, her constituency voted 54 percent to Leave.

Her critics have accused her of hypocrisy given that, in 2011, she backed a motion urging all MPs who defect to submit themselves to a by-election but opted not to after her own defection.

Ms Wollastone is one of a whopping 51 MPs to defect since the 2017 general election.

According to author and broadcaster Andrew Pierce, party switchers are the reason why Boris Johnson was not allowed to go to the polls when he asked for a general election in September.

In a recent column for the Daily Mail, Mr Pierce wrote: “Perhaps it’s not surprising, therefore, that with so many MPs thus dodging voters, the majority in the Commons won’t accede to the Government’s wishes of having a general election.

“For the truth is that if they were honest with themselves, MPs ought to have only one choice: Accept Boris Johnson’s EU exit deal or face voters in a general election and account for their failure to deliver Brexit.”

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