• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Monday, June 23, 2025
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
39 °f
New York
44 ° Fri
46 ° Sat
40 ° Sun
41 ° Mon
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
No Result
View All Result
Home Featured

UK Opposition Seeks to Oust PM to Avoid No-Deal Brexit

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
08/15/19
in Featured, World
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

Leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: Geoff Caddick, AFP

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Jeremy Corbyn urged anti-Boris Johnson MPs to make him Britain’s caretaker prime minister to avoid a no-deal Brexit – but his proposal was met with a mixed response on Thursday.

The Labour main opposition leader said once in power, he would seek to delay Britain’s October 31 exit date from the European Union and then call a general election.

Corbyn – the only person who can trigger a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Johnson’s government – will do so after MPs return to parliament on September 3, if he feels sure of victory.

Conservative PM Johnson has pledged to take Britain out of the E.U. on October 31, without a divorce deal if one cannot be agreed with Brussels.

With time running out, MPs opposed to Brexit, or at least to a no-deal departure, are scrambling for viable plans to stop Johnson in his tracks.

In a letter to other opposition leaders and leading rebel Conservatives, Corbyn said his plan “can halt the serious threat of no deal, end the uncertainty and disarray, and allow the public to decide the best way ahead.”

While the Scottish Nationalists, the second-biggest opposition party in parliament, welcomed the idea, the Liberal Democrats, the next-biggest, dismissed it as “nonsense”, saying Corbyn could not lead the charge.

Corbyn, a veteran leftist who is loathed by much of Britain’s political establishment,  has pursued so-called “constructive ambiguity” over Brexit.

Rebel Conservatives said they were happy to discuss the idea with Corbyn, Sky News television reported, while Greens and Welsh nationalists offered conditional support.

Lib Dem Rejection 

Johnson’s government commands just a one-vote majority in parliament’s lower House of Commons.

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson urged MPs to back a law stopping Britain leaving the E.U. on October 31 without a deal, and request a delay to the departure date in order to hold another referendum.

She does want to oust Johnson through a no-confidence motion and install an emergency government.

But rather than Corbyn or even herself, she suggested it could be led by the longest-serving male or female MPs in the house.

She proposed Conservative former finance minister Ken Clarke or former Labour temporary leader Harriet Harman, as figures who are clearly not seeking long-term power.

The Lib Dems are prepared to throw Britain off the No Deal cliff for their own cynical, party political ends. pic.twitter.com/Zxb5JsMvf6

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 15, 2019

Labour’s business spokeswoman Rebecca Long-Bailey insisted Corbyn’s plan was “the simplest and most democratic way of avoiding a no-deal situation.”

She said the notion could prevent Johnson from calling a general election for after October 31.

“We have to stop no-deal,” she told BBC radio.

In a tweet, Momentum, a grassroots political organization aligned with Corbyn, said that Lib Dems who reject Corbyn’s plan “should never again be taken seriously on their opposition to no-deal.”

General Election 

A Downing Street spokesman said Corbyn would “overrule” the 2016 referendum vote to leave the E.U., and “wreck the economy.”

If Johnson lost a vote of no confidence, that would trigger a 14-day period, by the end of which either he, or another figure, must be able to show they can command a majority in the Commons.

If not, a general election must be held – with Johnson having sway over the date.

The Britain Elects opinion poll aggregator puts the Conservatives at 30 percent, with Labour at 25 percent, the Liberal Democrats at 18, the Brexit Party at 15 and the Greens at six percent.

Johnson succeeded Theresa May as leader of the governing Conservatives last month on a promise to take Britain out of the bloc by the twice-delayed deadline.

The British parliament three times rejected the separation terms May signed with her E.U. counterparts last year, triggering her downfall.

Johnson insisted Wednesday that Brussels had to give ground in order to avoid a sudden rupture in trade and diplomatic ties.

He said a “terrible collaboration” of Brussels and Brexit-blocking MPs was forcing Britain towards a no-deal exit.

“The more they think there’s a chance Brexit can be blocked in parliament, the more adamant they are in sticking to their position,” Johnson said of E.U. chiefs.


More on the Subject 

Pelosi: No UK Trade Deal if Brexit Undermines Good Friday Accord

ShareTweet
Staff Writer

Staff Writer

AFP with The Globe Post

Related Posts

Nazanin Ratcliffe
Middle East

British-Iranian Zaghari-Ratcliffe Sentenced to One Year in Prison

by Staff Writer
April 26, 2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
World

UK Passes 100,000 Covid Deaths as European States Eye Tighter Borders

by Staff Writer
January 26, 2021
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
National

UK Slams ‘Disgraceful Scenes’ at Capitol by Trump Supporters

by Staff Writer
January 6, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
World

Britain Holds Crisis Meeting Over Virus Travel Ban

by Staff Writer
December 21, 2020
Conversion therapy has affected hundreds of thousands of individuals in the US.
World

More Than 300 Religious Leaders Urge Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’

by Staff Writer
December 16, 2020
China tests citizens for coronavirus.
World

China Tests Entire City for Virus as WHO Slams Herd Immunity Idea

by Staff Writer
October 13, 2020
Next Post
League leader Matteo Salvini

Six EU Countries Ready to Take in Migrants Stranded Off Italy

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Johnson’s ‘No Deal’ Brexit Gamble Could End in Disaster

Recommended

An Iranian protester

Iran’s Nuclear Program: From Its Origins to Today’s Dispute

June 23, 2025
Protesters and police clash during the “No Kings” protest in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025.

US Appeals Court Allows Trump Control of National Guard in LA

June 20, 2025
Donald Trump

Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination

June 18, 2025
Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the sky over Beirut, Lebanon, on June 14, 2025. Iran launched multiple missiles toward Israeli targets, triggering interception attempts above several regional capitals, including Beirut.

Israel-Iran Conflict: Latest Developments

June 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of protestors shut down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday, April 5, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's abuse of the separation of federal powers as well as the deep cuts to governmental services overseen by presidential advisor Elon Musk.

Civil Society Is Holding the Line. Will Washington Notice?

June 17, 2025
An Iranian walking in front of a wall painting of the Iranian flag in Tehran

How Much Damage Has Israel Inflicted on Iran’s Nuclear Program?

June 16, 2025

Opinion

Donald Trump

Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination

June 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of protestors shut down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday, April 5, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's abuse of the separation of federal powers as well as the deep cuts to governmental services overseen by presidential advisor Elon Musk.

Civil Society Is Holding the Line. Will Washington Notice?

June 17, 2025
A Black Lives Matter mural in New York City.

Fuhgeddaboudit! America’s Erasure of History

April 2, 2025
Bust of Deputy Rubens Paiva in the Chamber of Deputies

Democratic Brazilians Are Still Here

March 18, 2025
A woman from Guatemala

Dispatch From Central America

January 28, 2025
US President Donald Trump

Dear Trump Supporters: Is This the America You Wanted?

January 28, 2025
Facebook Twitter

Newsletter

Do you like our reporting?
SUBSCRIBE

About Us

The Globe Post

The Globe Post is part of Globe Post Media, a U.S. digital news organization that is publishing the world's best targeted news sites.

submit oped

© 2018 The Globe Post

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • World
  • Business
  • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Democracy at Risk
    • Media Freedom
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Book Reviews
    • Stage
  • Submit Op-ed

© 2018 The Globe Post