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This Tuesday morning, British newspapers focus on the ultimatum launched by Boris Johnson and cleverly staged Monday in front of Downing Street. Although the Prime Minister did not say so explicitly, he warned that he would call for early elections if his own MPs vote today in favor of a law to prevent an exit without agreement.
With our correspondent in London , Muriel Delcroix
" Support me or I call an early election on October 14 ", says the Guardian that the Prime Minister had been thinking for several days already to take this direction and decided the resolve of his deputies Frondeurs to put sticks in the wheels by joining forces with the opposition in Parliament.
" Save your job "
The leader says he has no choice but to carry out a Brexit in the interest of the country, but the Guardian editorialist does not believe it and believes that Boris Johnson's strategy is above all to " save his life." post office ".
For the Times , the leader's gamble is risky, perhaps the riskiest of his career and if he loses it his mandate could be the shortest in the country's history. According to their political color, the verdict of the newspapers is very different.
The very right and pro-Brexit Telegraph qualifies the threat of an advance poll of " bold gesture "; for the daily Boris Johnson has nothing to fear because most voters want to see the Brexit settled and move on.
"Economic calamity"
Conversely, the tabloid left Daily Mirror warns that an exit without agreement would be " an economic calamity " and described Boris Johnson as " Prime Minister kamikaze ".
The Financial Times noted that the government's publication of a plan to deal with the shock of a "no deal" scheduled for Tuesday was canceled because its forecasts of chaos in British ports and shortages commodities of all kinds were considered " too pessimistic ".