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The leader of the Labor opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, launched a hard attack against Premier Boris Johnson in what analysts consider the launch of his own campaign. "The elections are falling," he warned, one day after the temporary suspension of Parliament. "And the elections will be the largest popular deployment ever seen in the Labor Party."

Corbyn accused Johnson of wanting to "kidnap" the result of the referendum and stirred the ghost of Donald Trump. "Let no one doubt it: a Brexit without an agreement is a Brexit to sign an agreement with Trump, in a position of weakness that will put us at the mercy of the big American corporations to blow our teeth to our public health, bring our industry to our knees of steel and suppress the rights of our workers. "

The Liberal-Democratic Party also gave its particular starting signal with the most explicit rejection of Brexit to date . Driven by the flight of new deputies to their ranks, the new leader Jo Swinson thus anticipated his strategy: "When the elections occur, our position will be clear and unequivocal. A liberal-democratic government will not renegotiate Brexit but will revoke the Article 50 to remain in the EU ".

The two main opposition parties have decided to take diverse positions, although they have yet to agree on a common strategy to hold early elections in November, when the possibility of a Brexit without an agreement on October 31 has been eliminated.

The block opposition passed the extreme Brexit veto law that forces Boris Johnson to request a three-month extension if he fails to reach an agreement with the EU before October 18. Given the possibility that the premier ignores the law or decides to plant a battle before the Supreme Court, the opposition is exploring other options to force its demolition when Parliament regains its activity in five weeks.

An option that gains strength again is the possibility of a vote of censure the last week of October. If Johnson, who has conceded six parliamentary defeats in six days , lost the vote, he would be forced to leave Downing Street in the final stretch of Brexit and the Queen could entrust the formation of a Government to Jeremy Corbyn or a politician who heads a Government of unity.

With an extension of the EU exit already guaranteed (at the expense of what Brussels said), the elections could be held in November, at a less favorable date for Boris Johnson, who so far has taken political advantage to his pulse with the Parliament and goes 14 points ahead of Corbyn in the polls (35% to 21%).

The premier, who witnessed on Monday night the scenes of chaos in the "silenced" Parliament, anticipated his intention not to appear even in a parliamentary committee (as planned on Wednesday) and summoned deputies to October 14 to the Queen's speech, in which she will outline her Government program.

Johnson received on Tuesday afternoon the ten deputies of the Unionist Democratic Party, with whom he maintains a parliamentary alliance despite having lost the majority with the expulsion of 21 conservative deputies. A spokesman for Downing Street said that Johnson discards in advance the possibility of a "safeguard" only for Northern Ireland, an alternative that plans to reactivate Brussels in the coming days and that was rejected in his day by Theresa May for considering that it endangers the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom.

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