British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defiantly suspended Parliament until next month and said he would not seek a Brexit extension as opposition lawmakers protested the maneuver by holding up signs that said “Silenced” and “Shame on you.”​

Johnson on Tuesday said he would go to Brussels to try to negotiate a new deal with the European Union but insisted the United Kingdom will withdraw from the trading bloc by the Oct. 31 deadline.

“I will go to that crucial summit on October the 17th and no matter how many devices this Parliament invents to tie my hands, I will strive to get an agreement in the national interest​.​ … This government will not delay Brexit any further​,” he said after a law took effect that ​required him to delay the departure until 2020 unless he can work out a divorce deal by Oct. 19.

Lawmakers also rejected for the second time Johnson’s request to hold a snap national election and ordered the government to release private communications about its Brexit plans.

Opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said his colleagues back an election but not until delaying Brexit was secured.

“We’re eager for an election, but as keen as we are, we are not prepared to inflict the disaster of a no-deal on our communities, our jobs, our services, or indeed our rights,” ​he said.

​The government then shut down Parliament until Oct. 14 as lawmakers in the House of Commons accused Johnson and other conservatives of intentionally trying to stifle debate.

Commons Speaker John Bercrow said Johnson’s action “represents an act of executive fiat.”

​Johnson, who succeeded Theresa May as prime minister in J​ul​y after she failed three times to ​get Parliament to agree to a Brexit deal, ​kicked out 21 members of his Conservative Party and saw two of his cabinet ministers quit the government, including his younger brother, Jo Johnson, since the chamber returned from its summer break on Sept. 3.

Voters approved a referendum to leave the European Union in 2016.

With Post wires