UK Labour chief Corbyn to back an early election
The leader of Britain's main opposition Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, has said his party backs an early general election in December after meeting his shadow cabinet. Corbyn said the party's precondition of taking a no-deal Brexit "off the table" have been met, the UK media outlets reported on Tuesday.
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- Published Date: 02:21 | 29 October 2019
- Modified Date: 02:21 | 29 October 2019
The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party has told fellow lawmakers that he'll back an early election now that the prospect that the country could crash out of the European Union without a deal has been taken off the table.
Jeremy Corbyn's remarks Tuesday come only hours before Conservative British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to once again ask lawmakers to approve an early election — on Dec. 12 — saying voters must have the chance to break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament.
Corbyn's comments come as other opposition parties, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party, had proposed an even earlier election date of Dec. 9 in hopes that there wouldn't be enough time for Johnson's government to push through its Brexit bill before Parliament is suspended ahead of the election.
They did not want Johnson to campaign on his crowning achievement of having gotten the country out of the 28-nation bloc.
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