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Labor Party number two , Tom Watson, has resigned at the start of the British election campaign, in a low blow to its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Watson has alleged "personal and not political reasons" to justify his departure, but his confrontation with Corbyn over discrepancies around Brexit and the issue of anti-Semitism in the party has been public and notorious.

Watson, representative of the moderate wing of Labor, had been defending the "permanence" for months, an option defended by 70% of the party's voters. His departure comes precisely one day after Corbyn confirmed his intention to represent "both sides of the debate" on the Brexit issue.

The former number two survived last September to an attempt the hard wing of the party to eliminate his post. His resignation after 18 years as Labor deputy, leaves in a very committed position other supporters of the stay as Foreign spokeswoman Emily Thornberry and Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer.

The resignation of Watson eclipsed the official launch of the campaign of Premier Boris Johnson, with the promise of "culminating Brexit" and turning 2020 into "the year of investment and growth." The electoral gun was also tarnished by the popular clamor against the spokesman of the Tories in Parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for declaring that the 72 fatalities of the Grenfell tower fire lacked "common sense" to escape the tragedy (caused by poor insulation).

Johnson also missed the late resignation of his secretary for Wales Alun Cairns, for his role in the trial for rape of his former counselor Ross England. Cairns had to reiterate his candidacy for Parliament on the grid for the December 12 elections.

After his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, to communicate the dissolution of Parliament, Johnson said that Westminster's obstructionism in the last three months "has been so frustrating that I have been tempted to chew my tie."

"With this Parliament, the United Kingdom could not have left the EU even on January 31," Johnson said at the gates of Downing Street, before embarking on the electoral tour (the last candidate to do so) through the Midlands and with an advantage over the Labor Party from eight to 13 points (according to the latest surveys of ICM and YouGov).

"I am proud of everything achieved as prime minister," he said in his brief speech. "I did not want an election in winter, but they left me no choice. If we finally fulfill Brexti there will be an increase in investments in the United Kingdom. What this country cannot bear is more uncertainty and more delays."

"There is only one way to complete Brexit and I fear that the answer is to ask the British for a change in this parliamentary blockade," Johnson added. "The alternative is clear: Jeremy Corbyn, turning 2020 into the year of two miserable referendums (of the EU and of the independence of Scotland)."

Johnson addressed the British predicting that the new Parliament will be set up at the end of December with a "conservative majority that will work for you. The premier spoke for a little over ten minutes and reserved the best cartridges for his first election act in the afternoon. in Birmingham.

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