Johnson Threatens Oct. 14 Election in Battle Over No-Deal Brexit
(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the U.K. on notice that it may face an election within weeks, as the political crisis engulfing the country’s divorce from the European Union deepens.
Johnson will try to trigger a snap general election on Oct. 14 if he loses a crunch vote in Parliament this week, when his opponents will try to force him to delay Brexit, according to a senior official in his government.
Members of parliament who fear the effects of leaving the EU without a deal will try to take control of parliamentary business on Tuesday, a step toward trying to force Johnson to seek an extension to negotiations in the event of no agreement. Johnson says that would destroy his strategy of threatening to walk away from talks if the EU won’t give him what he wants.
Johnson told an emergency Cabinet meeting on Monday that if the rebels win, he’ll respond by seeking a vote the next day to hold a general election.
“I want everybody to know there are no circumstances in which I will ask Brussels to delay,” he said in a hastily arranged statement outside his office.
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