Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn demands election to 'break deadlock'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn demands election to 'break deadlock'

10 January 2019

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has stepped up calls for a general election "at the earliest opportunity" to "break the deadlock" over Brexit.

In a speech, he said a new government would have a fresh mandate to negotiate a better withdrawal deal with the EU.

He told Theresa May: "If you are so confident in your deal, call that election, and let the people decide."

The Conservatives said Labour did not have a plan for Brexit and were "playing politics".

Mr Corbyn has resisted growing calls from within his own party to get behind another EU referendum, insisting an election is still his top priority if Theresa May's Brexit deal is rejected by MPs next week.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46824125

[YessirAtsaFact]

1. This is the sanest thing I've read about Brexit in years

Another vote and keep Putin out of it.

[Docreed2003]

2. How about a new Brexit referendum?

This time without the Russian/Cambridge Analytica influence!?!

[mwooldri]

4. IMO that's the best idea.

A new general election could well return another hung parliament and show how divided the UK is on the issue.

Needs to be a two question referendum. Leave/Remain... Deal or No Deal.

[mwooldri]

3. What if we have another hung Parliament?

That would be my prediction in a new general election. Now Corbyn might end up as PM thanks to a rainbow coalition of Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and the Greens... The price might be Indyref 2 and another go at getting a proportional representation system in place for Westminster elections.

[nycbos]

5. Why not do a deal with May.

Have a 2nd referendum. If the vote is remain then cancel article 50. If the vote is leave again then back May's deal so it doesn't matter what the extremists on the Tory back benches say.