The battle against the "no deal" is engaged in London. The British opposition parties on Tuesday (August 27th) said they were determined to thwart a Brexit emergency without an agreement on Oct. 31. For its part, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party threatened Prime Minister Boris Johnson with electoral torpedoing if he did not break with the European Union (EU).

Leaders of opposition parties had a "productive" meeting to block a Brexit without a "disastrous" agreement, Labor, the Scottish National Party (SNP), Liberal Democrats, Plaid said Cymru (Wales), the Greens and the Independent Group for Change. "Participants agreed on the urgency of acting together to find practical ways to avoid a lack of agreement, including the possibility of passing a law and mistrust" against the government.

Boris Johnson has only a majority of one vote in Parliament and has not ruled out the possibility of suspending the assembly to prevent MPs from blocking a "no deal". To mark their opposition to such a suspension, MPs held another meeting Tuesday in Parliament.

"Historical Constitutional Crisis"

"Any attempt to prevent Parliament from sitting, to impose a Brexit without agreement, will face a strong and general democratic resistance" and would constitute a "historic constitutional crisis", warned in a joint statement the deputies. Among those elected - 160 in number, according to Labor Stephen Doughty - are opposition heavyweights like Labor John McDonnell and Liberal Democratic Party leader Jo Swinson.

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For its part, the Brexit Party, led by europhobic MEP Nigel Farage, put itself in order of battle by presenting Tuesday its candidates for possible early parliamentary elections, a scenario increasingly evoked.

"The 'no deal' is the best deal, the only acceptable deal," said Nigel Farage, applauded by more than 500 potential candidates in London. He will introduce himself. His party, which topped the European elections in May, promised to play all the seats held by the Tories if Boris Johnson made a compromise with Brussels.

In contrast, Labor, the main opposition, will do "all that is necessary" to prevent a "no deal", warned Jeremy Corbyn Monday in the newspaper The Independent. According to him, early elections would be the best way to thwart a Brexit without a parachute. Labor would then campaign for a new referendum on EU membership.

Boris Johnson repeated in a telephone conversation Tuesday evening with Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, that "there was no prospect of agreement" without changes to that concluded between the former Prime Minister Theresa May and Brussels. Jean-Claude Juncker warned that "any concrete proposal" for change should be precisely "compatible" with this agreement, according to a statement from the European Commission, which adds: "A scenario of Brexit without agreement will never be that the decision of the United Kingdom, not that of the EU. "

With AFP