British Shadow Justice Minister Yasmin Qureshi claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson was counting down the time so that he could take the U.K. out of the EU without a deal.
British opposition Labour Party will not support any attempts by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call for a national vote before the Brexit deadline expires at the end of the month, Shadow Justice Minister Yasmin Qureshi said.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech at 10 Downing Street on September 2, 2019 in London, England.opposition Labour Party will not support any attempts by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call for a national vote before the Brexit deadline expires at the end of the month, U.K. Shadow Justice Minister Yasmin Qureshi told CNBC.
A snap election could potentially help Johnson hold on to what he perceives as the option of a no-deal Brexit. "We're not going to allow to maneuver us ... into a general election on the 14th," Qureshi said, explaining that voters may not understand the full consequences of Brexit before the approaching deadline at the end of the month.
"They fear he could use the PM's powers to change the election date to November, with Parliament unable to stop the UK crashing out on 31 October, because it would have been dissolved for the election," he wrote., his priority was to prevent a no-deal Brexit. "I think what we're most likely to see is a kind of Labour/Scottish Nationalist/Liberal Democrat/Green coalition very much focused on preventing a no-deal Brexit, and renegotiating something with the EU," Wellings said.
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