The Sun's (hell of a newspaper to quote I know) political editor Tom Newton-Dunn has highlighted another headache for Boris and co which would have made a 31 October exit day an impossibility with his deal. The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (2010) requires that any international treaty (the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is such a treaty) be laid before the House of Commons for 21 days before it can be ratified. I don't know if that means 21 calendar days or business days but either way the latest the deal would need to have been submitted would have been 10 October and Boris's deal hadn't been done by then.
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