So, what is this clever little wheeze cooked up by Dominic Grieve to stop a Prime Minister proroguing parliament and then forcing through a no-deal Brexit?
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The Remainers are worried that, should Boris Johnson become Prime Minister he might get close to Brexit day only to find that the EU isn't up to negotiating with us and so take the step of proroguing, or shutting down, parliament so that MPs can't get in the way and block our exit from the EU.
The Remainers for their part want to keep the parliamentary shop open for as long as it takes to at least delay Brexit, if not stop it altogether.
But at some stage there would be nothing to stop the prime Minister from going to the Queen and recommending she prorogues parliament for a while before starting a new session.
So how is Dominic Grieve hoping to prevent this happening.
Well, at 7pm tonight MPs will be debating the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill and the plan would be to introduce an amendment that would force the government to make a statement to the house about power-sharing sometime in October.
Now, the latest House of Commons published documentation does not show this amendment as far as I can see, but there are many other amendments, mostly from the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, that if voted through requires the government to lay statutory instruments before parliament prior to the 21st of October.
The aim of forcing a minister to make a statement in the house on a certain date would mean that Parliament could of course n..
