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The standoff between the British government and the conservative rebels intensified: Boris Johnson warned that members of his party would be ejected if they tried to prevent a Brexit without agreement. A warning ahead of a new decisive week in Westminster parliament during which opposition parties will try to pass a law in urgency to avoid a "no deal" before the suspension of Parliament next week.
With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix
In London, opposition parties and conservative rebels are in turmoil: on the eve of the parliamentary return, tomorrow, Tuesday, September 3, they are perfecting their plan to counter Boris Johnson's controversial decision to suspend parliament for five years. weeks. The idea is to pass in a few days a law that would prevent the United Kingdom to leave the European bloc without agreement.
Vote of confidence
But, for his part, Boris Johnson seems determined to make the vote of this emergency law a vote of confidence in his government by warning rebel Conservative MPs that they will be ejected from the party if they join forces with the Labor Party. Jeremy Corbyn. However, this threat if it is implemented could deprive Boris Johnson of a majority in Parliament currently reduced to a single deputy.
If this were the case, then the prime minister would have no choice but to call early parliamentary elections. His opponents believe that this is exactly what the Conservative leader has in mind: a vote in which he could run as the candidate of the people against a parliamentary elite who refuses to honor the Brexit referendum, while purging the same time the conservative party of its opponents to a Brexit without agreement.
Corbyn agrees early elections
In response, in a speech on Monday, Jeremy Corbyn has just said he is ready for early elections after the adoption of a law to block a "no deal".
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