leader and arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg told Sky News.

Asked what he would say to those who thought the move was undemocratic, the Conservative MP said they "didn't know what they were talking about — it's a normal functioning of our constitution".

More than a million people quickly signed an online petition objecting to the decision to suspend Parliament, and the pound fell sharply.

Protests outside the UK Parliament continued into the evening in London. ( AP: Vudi Xhymshiti )

The House of Commons will convene from September 3 to September 10 and then was scheduled to go on a break until October 9 — though politicians had suggested they might cancel that break and stay in session because of the Brexit crisis.

Twenty-five bishops from the Church of England released an open letterInternational transferability of accident modification functions for horizontal curves.
Studies of the relationship between characteristics of horizontal curves and accident rate have been reported in several countries. The characteristic most often studied is the radius of a horizontal curve. Functions describing the relationship between the radius of horizontal curves and accident rate have been developed in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the United States. Other characteristics of horizontal curves that have been studied include deflection angle, curve length, the presence of transition curves, super-elevation in curves and distance to adjacent curves. This paper assesses the international transferability of mathematical functions (accident modification functions) that have been developed to relate the radius of horizontal curves to their accident rate. The main research problem