is calling the move a, quote, smash and grab. nic robertson is live for us in a rainy london, per usual. so nic, explain to us what this would mean for brexit. >> reporter: it makes a no-deal brexit more likely because that's what boris johnson has been threatening to do. of course, the opposition parties were meeting yesterday in london to figure out a way to block him. they were trying to consider whether it would be better to have a vote of no confidence in boris johnson's government and bring down that government and put something in its place or to find a legal mechanism to stop the no-deal brexit. so what boris johnson has done here is effectively take parliamentary time away from the opposition. but what he's also doing here, while undermining them, he's also making -- giving himself a