British lawmakers will on Tuesday try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from ...
LONDON - British lawmakers will on Tuesday try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing what they cast as a calamitous no-deal Brexit, a challenge a senior government source said would prompt him to call for a snap election on Oct. 14.
Johnson implicitly warned lawmakers on Monday that he would seek an election if they tied his hands, ruling out ever countenancing a further delay to Brexit, scheduled for Oct. 31. “I think we will have the numbers,” one of the rebels, Conservative former finance minister Philip Hammond, said. “Prime Minister Johnson has always intended that there will be an election.”
The pound, which has gyrated to the rhetoric of Brexit since the 2016 referendum, fell to as low as $1.1959 As Johnson played Brexit chess with lawmakers, opponents cast his order to suspend parliament as undemocratic and his threat to kick rebels out of the party as a perilous act that could endanger the future of the Conservative Party.The rebel alliance will put forward a vote on Tuesday on whether to seize control of the parliamentary agenda the following day to try to pass legislation that would force Johnson to seek a three-month delay to Britain’s EU exit.
Johnson has cast rebels as EU “collaborators” who are undermining the government’s negotiating hand by blunting his threat of a no-deal Brexit. Johnson’s foreign minister, Dominic Raab, criticised “shenanigans in parliament”.To hold an election, the government would need the backing of two-thirds of lawmakers in the 650-seat House of Commons. Labour’s Corbyn will host a meeting of opposition parties on Tuesday to discuss their plans to block a no-deal.
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