Conservative MP Peter Bone addressed the Commons during Business Questions to the Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg. He offered an alternative method for Boris Johnson to ensure the UK leaves the EU by the October 31 deadline. Mr Rees-Mogg called the solution “intriguing”.

He told Parliament: “The British people voted to leave the European Union in a referendum.

“This House has given a second reading to the withdrawal bill and it cannot be changed.

“You either accept that or you don’t, it is going to be a treaty.

“So, Leader of the House, why doesn’t the Prime Minister just go to Brussels, sign the treaty because it’s endorsed by the British people and by the second reading.”

He continued: “And then we can have ratification by this House and by the European Parliament at length.

“And then could we have a statement immediately after he signed it that he has signed it?”

However, his fellow Tory colleague, Mr Rees-Mogg admitted that it wouldn’t “achieve its intended objective”.

Although he called it “a very intriguing point”.

He said: “The problem that it wouldn’t work, as far as I understand it, is that the treaty needs to be given effect in UK law to have effect by November 1, or strictly speaking, from 11pm on October 31.

“So although what he suggests is intriguing, I don’t think it would achieve its intended objective.”

During the weekend, MPs voted by 322 to 306 to withhold approval of Mr Johnson’s EU exit deal.

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This forced the Prime Minister to write to Brussels to request an extension until January 31 2020.

The Benn Act required him to do so if a deal was not passed in time, in order to avoid a no deal Brexit.

He has also written to other EU leaders saying he doesn’t really want a delay.

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has said he “will recommend the EU27 accept the UK request for an extension”.

EU ambassadors are expected to meet before the end of the week in order to discuss the next steps.

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