British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned members of his own party not to undermine the U.K.'s position in talks with the EU.
And the prime minister insisted Monday that efforts to rule out a no deal, an implicit threat that he says will force the EU to soften its own stance on the issue, could "chop the legs out" from under the U.K.'s negotiating position.
"I don't want an election, and you don't want an election," he said in an appeal to a notional, national television audience, part of an electorate that since 2014 has endured two elections, twin referendums and consecutive Conservative prime ministers resign on the issue of Europe. "Johnson and his allies seem to believe that they could frame a snap election as a choice between the 'people' and an anti-democratic political class," said Kallum Pickering, a senior economist at Berenberg, in a research note to clients. The probability of a Corbyn-led government, he insisted, "remains low."
"Our mission is very clear and it is about preventing no deal," said Jenny Chapman, a senior party spokesperson on Brexit. "If that means that a general election can't happen at that particular point, then stopping no deal must come first."
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