Opposition parties, including the Labour Party, say they will either vote against or abstain on calls for an election until the law to force Johnson to seek a Brexit delay is implemented. FMTNews
LONDON: British opposition parties said on Friday that they would block Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second bid to call an early general election in mid-October, setting up a showdown with the government over delaying Brexit.
Johnson says the only solution is a new election, which he wants to take place on Oct 15, allowing him to win a new mandate with two weeks left to leave the bloc on time. He needs two-thirds of parliament’s lawmakers to back an early election. The opposition bill, which would force Johnson to seek a three-month Brexit delay, is expected to pass parliament’s appointed upper chamber, the House of Lords, later on Friday. Queen Elizabeth is expected to sign it into law on Monday.
Johnson, a leader of the Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum who took office in July after Theresa May quit having failed three times to get a Brexit deal through parliament, has said he would rather “die in a ditch” than delay Brexit. When asked if he would resign if he could not deliver that, he said: “That is not a hypothesis I’m willing to contemplate.”The purge of 21 Conservative lawmakers, many of them highly respected veterans including some who had left the cabinet only weeks before, has created a schism in the ruling party.
England’s High Court rejected a legal challenge against that decision on Friday and a Scottish court rejected a similar challenge earlier this week. But the issue could be taken to the Supreme Court for a final appeal.
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