The Shadow Home Secretary told Sky News her party will be prepared to consider a “fair play” approach to the question of allowing the Conservative Party to hold their conference next week and therefore allowing for a further parliamentary recess. It comes as the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and ordered MPs to go back to Parliament on Wednesday morning. 

Ms Abbott told Sky News: “The Labour Party is very benevolent and believes in fair play so we’ll see what they come forward with.

“But we want to be benevolent.”

Asked whether Labour would be prepared to allow a couple of recess days for the Tories to have their annual conference, the Labour frontbencher said the party was going to decide in an imminent meeting what its position will be on the matter.

She said: “I can’t speak for my colleagues but we’re going to have a Shadow Cabinet meeting in about an hour and that’s one of the things we will discuss.”

The Labour Party is very benevolent and believes in fair play so we’ll see what they come forward with

Diane Abbott

But earlier this morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he will not support any parliamentary recess until a Brexit extension to prevent a no deal is guaranteed by the Government.

He told BBC Radio 4: “I don’t see why Boris Johnson and his team should be able to run away from accountability yet again”

Parliament will resume on Wednesday as instructed by House of Commons speaker John Bercow following the Supreme Court decision.

Announcing the result, the court’s president Lady Hale said the Government’s advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because “it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification”.

She said the prolonged suspension of parliamentary democracy took place in the “quite exceptional circumstances” of the UK’s impending exit from the EU on October 31.

Lady Hale added: “Parliament, and in particular, the House of Commons as the elected representatives of the people has a right to a voice in how that change comes about.

“The effect upon the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.”

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The Labour leader called on the Prime Minister to apologise to both the Queen and the British public.

The Islington North MP said: “He clearly has abused the power he has in the royal prerogative and attempted to close down Parliament.

“Thanks to the Supreme Court, we now have Parliament meeting again today and we will once again be able to question the Government in what it is actually doing in taking us out of the EU without a deal, with all the damage that will do to people’s jobs and livelihoods.

“I think he should apologise to her (the Queen) for the advice he gave her but, more importantly, apologise to the British people for what he’s done in trying to shut down our democracy at a very crucial time when people are very, very worried about what will happen on October 31.”

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