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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the election campaign this December. AFP Photos / Pool / Ben Stansall

Boris Johnson is preparing to return to parliament after the early elections where the Conservatives are the big election winners. They will have their hands free to implement Brexit while the British opposition is largely weakened.

With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix

Boris Johnson wants to show that he has no time to lose. So no question of resting on its laurels before the Christmas break, on the contrary it accelerates the tempo. This Tuesday, December 17, after having chaired two meetings with his new government in Downing Street, the Prime Minister is going to Westminster for the start of the parliamentary term.

Boris Johnson intends to submit to a House of Commons now dominated by his conservative party the law concerning the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union for a prompt exit from the European fold on January 31.

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The head of government has already announced that he intends to have concluded a trade agreement with Brussels before the end of the transitional period in December 2020 and even announced that he would pass a law to make illegal any extension of this period of transition and this although the Europeans warn that it will take longer to reach agreement.

Corbyn still there after the debacle

But he will meet with him a very weak political opposition. The settling of scores continues to undermine the Labor Party after its resounding election defeat. Jeremy Corbyn may have belatedly accepted his responsibility for this failure, but he wants to remain at the head of the party until the election of a new leader.

A process which should not be concluded before March 2020. But many furious members of parliament demand his departure before. Jeremy Corbyn was to address them this Tuesday evening in Westminster, a face to face that already promised to be extremely stormy, potentially the meeting of all dangers for a leader disowned both by his traditional voters and by his own deputies.