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British MPs decide Monday, September 9, whether or not they want early elections, desired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of the political crisis and implement his highly criticized Brexit strategy. This Monday in Dublin Boris Johnson also meets his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar to discuss the negotiations on Brexit.
Work to be done for the British Parliament this Monday, September 9, 2019.
Regarding Brexit, the text that wants to force Boris Johnson to request a new postponement to 31 January 2020 if he does not reach a Brexit agreement with the EU by 31 October, comes to second reading in the House communes. The text was approved by the House of Lords on Friday. The law should get the approval of the Queen on Monday.
Regarding the early parliamentary elections, the government must re-submit in the evening to the vote of the deputies the request for early elections already rejected last Wednesday. Boris Johnson desperately wants to organize a poll on October 15 but Friday all the opposition parties (labor, libdem, snp) have already announced that they would vote against or abstain.
Then the proceedings of Parliament will be suspended until October 14th.
Boris Johnson no longer has a majority
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, no longer has a majority in Parliament following the defection of a Tory MP for the Liberal Democratic Party and the exclusion of the Conservative Party from 21 moderate MPs who voted with the Conservatives. opposition a proposal for a law to avoid an exit without the agreement of the European Union.
In addition, his own brother, Jo Johnson, slammed on Thursday, September 5, the door of the government invoking the "national interest", followed Saturday by the Minister of Labor Amber Rudd, after a disastrous week for Boris Johnson. Yet elections could revive it. According to a YouGov poll in the Sunday Times , the Conservative Party would top the list, with 35% of the vote, 14 points higher than Labor.
Report "useless"
To organize these elections, Boris Johnson needs a two-thirds majority in Parliament. But the opposition is not in favor of these elections in the immediate future, preferring to ensure first that a "no deal" is excluded.
Boris Johnson came to power in July, promising to pull the United Kingdom out of the European Union on October 31, with or without an agreement. He opposes any new deadline for Brexit, originally scheduled for March 29. But, mostly opposed to a "no deal", the Parliament voted a bill of law forcing him to postpone the Brexit date by three months if he does not reach an exit agreement by October 19, that is just after the European Council of 17 and 18 October.
The opposition is also worried that Boris Johnson will ignore the anti-no deal law, which is only waiting for the Queen's approval to come into force, and that the case ends in the courts.
The Irish "safety net" "an essential element"
Any new deadline will still have to be unanimously approved by the other 27 EU Member States, and France does not seem to be convinced at the moment. The head of French diplomacy, Jean-Yves le Drian, warned that in the " current circumstances ", it would be " no ".
Boris Johnson is in Ireland on Monday, where he meets Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Monday. The latter assured Monday that the European Union has received " so far " no " realistic " London proposal in the Brexit negotiations, said Monday Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to the press.
The Irish " safety net " remains an essential element of the withdrawal agreement until an alternative is found, "Varadkar said, welcoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson for talks on Brexit. Ireland is at the heart of negotiations between the UK and the EU, which do not find common ground on the " safety net ".