Brexit: Parliament's go-ahead, the anti-no-law law tomorrow

• Brexit, Boris Johnson lost the majority in Parliament. Member of Parliament Tory goes with Lib Dem
• Brexit, UN report forecasts losses of 16 billion in Britain's exports
• Tory Member Philip Lee stands up and goes to sit in the lib-dem seats: and Johnson loses a majority
• Boris Johnson: we do not want early voting but it is inevitable if we postpone Brexit
• "Stopping the coup": the mobilization against Boris Johnson's Brexit

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The Tory government of Boris Johnson was beaten tonight to the Municipalities in the first, crucial vote on the anti-no-deal law submitted by the opponents to try to force the British premier to ask the EU for a new postponement of Brexit, in the absence of agreement, beyond 31 October.

The room gave the go-ahead - with 328 yes and 301 no - to a disputed cross-sectional motion aimed at removing control of the calendar from the executive and putting the text to the vote tomorrow. Among the yeses, with the oppositions, those of various leading Tory rebels.

The last tug of war has begun in view of Britain's exit from the European Union. Johnson lost his majority in Westminster today due to the passage of MP Tory Phillip Lee with the Liberal Democrats. Lee explained his defection with the fact that "the government pursues a Brexit without principles" putting people's lives and well-being at risk.



The emergency debate passes
The emergency parliamentary debate has begun in the London Parliament, linked to the attempt to block a Brexit without agreement. A group of parliamentarians had presented the request in the afternoon, welcomed a short while ago by speaker John Bercow. Opposition MPs, supported by some 'rebel' Tories, are intent on using today's session in Parliament to try to legislate
in order to avoid the Brexit scenario without agreement. The debate will last up to 3 hours.


Statement to the Parliament
Brexit will allow Britain to establish a closer "free trade agreement" with the United States, the prime minister said in the afternoon during the 'statement' before the reopening of the British House of Commons. Johnson, interrupted several times by murmurs and protests, stressed that he considered the United States "an ally" and "a force of good in the world", criticizing "the anti-Americanism of youth" of the Labor opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn and others. The premier also mentioned the environmental issue related to the fires in the Amazon and the Hong Kong crisis among the central themes of the G7, to which he referred.

Speaking again in the courtroom, Johnson told MEPs that he wanted a divorce negotiated by the EU and that there is a "real momentum" for negotiations. But he added that the "rebellious" Tory's project to vote in favor of a bill that effectively blocks a Brexit no-deal "would destroy any chance of negotiating a new agreement". If the rebels were successful they would force him to go to Brussels to "beg for another senseless postponement", which he would never "do".

The session, inaugurated by the usual invitations to silence ("order, order!") Of the picturesque speaker of the assembly, John Bercow, began while outside Westminster several hundred anti-Brexit and pro-Brexit protesters faced each other from a distance.

Corbyn: Coward Government
The leader of the British Labor opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, described Boris Johnson as a "cowardly government that hides its true intentions on Brexit". In his speech in Westminster, Corbyn also accused the conservative premier of "attacking the country's democracy to impose its no-deal". "This government - said Corbyn - has no mandate, neither moral nor from today even the majority" in Parliament

In case of postponement, early elections
On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following an emergency meeting of his cabinet on Downing Street, had declared: no postponement of the exit from the EU on October 31st. We don't want early voting, Johnson added, but it will be inevitable if Brexit is postponed.



Brussels approval
Even if the anti-no-deal law passes and London asks Brussels for a postponement of the withdrawal date, it must have the non-guaranteed approval of Brussels. "The scenario of a Brexit without agreement is a very obvious possibility," said the European Commission spokeswoman, Mina Andreeva, adding that on Wednesday at the College of Commissioners "we will launch a final appeal so that everyone is ready in the event of a divorce without agreement ".

Hearing of future non-European citizens
The Constitutional Affairs Commission of the European Parliament has decided, on the proposal of outgoing President Antonio Tajani, to invite the associations representing European citizens living in the United Kingdom and British citizens who live in the other countries of the 'EU.

Three million Europeans, including 600,000 Italians, live and work in the United Kingdom. "It is our duty to give voice to European citizens and protect their rights - says Tajani - in particular, at this time of difficulty due to the recent developments in the Brexit affair".