British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asks lawmakers to back his call for a snap election on Oct. 15, after the House of Commons moved to stop him from leading the country out of the European Union without a divorce deal.
British opposition parties are rejecting Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for an Oct. 15 election, saying they won’t back a snap poll unless the government takes a no-deal Brexit off the table.But Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, called Johnson’s call for an election a “cynical” move. And Scottish National Party lawmaker Ian Blackford said he and his colleagues “do not trust the prime minister.
Opposition parties say they won’t back an election until a law has been passed to prevent a no-deal Brexit.Britain’s House of Commons has approved an attempt by lawmakers to stop the country leaving the European Union in October without a divorce deal, sending it to Parliament’s unelected upper chamber for debate.
The House of Commons voted 329-300 to approve the bill in principle, sending it on for further debate and another vote later Wednesday. He said there is “no sense” in granting Britain an extension to the current Brexit date of Oct. 31 “that seems to lead nowhere, and I don’t think it’s possible to find majority support for such an extension.”
Carney says the bank expects the pound to fall if the U.K. leaves without a withdrawal Brexit and raise the cost of imported goods. The Sikh lawmaker said that “for those of us from a young age who have had to endure and face up to being called names such as towel head or Taliban or coming from Bongo Bongo land, we can appreciate full well the hurt and the pain felt by already vulnerable Muslim women when they are described as looking like bank robbers or letter boxes.
It is standing by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s previous comments that the two sides can still work toward a deal by the Oct. 31 deadline “if the will is there is both sides.” Britain’s Brexit envoy David Frost is in Brussels for technical talks with EU counterparts to see whether progress can be made.
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