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TEHRAN, Sept 03 -As parliament returns from summer recess today, speculation is mounting of an imminent snap general election.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The House of Commons has until the end of this week to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans for a no-deal Brexit.
Downing Street has made it clear that the PM will push for an early general election on October 14, if MP’s succeed in delaying Brexit to 31 January, 2020.
Although Johnson’s hardline approach to Brexit attracts strong opposition from across the House of Commons, Britain’s political destiny is now effectively in the hands of rebels within the ruling Conservative party.
Johnson’s aides have threatened Tory rebels with reprisals if they vote to bring in legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit. To that end, Johnson has threatened Tory rebels with deselection and withdrawal of the parliamentary whip.
It remains to be seen if Jonson’s threats have the desired effect of deterring more than a dozen Conservative MPs from joining with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and other opposition parties to pass legislation intended to delay Brexit.
But in a sign of potentially bad news for the PM, one of the most ardent Tory rebels, former chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has claimed there is “enough support” for a Brexit-delaying bill.
Hammond has gone on the offensive against Johnson by claiming that 10 Downing Street does not have the “power” to deselect him. And in the event of deselection he has promised the “fight of a lifetime”.
In a sign of bitter Tory in-fighting ahead, the ex-chancellor accused “incomers” and “entryists” of trying to transform the Conservative Party from a “broach church” into a “narrow faction”.
This has been widely interpreted as a swipe at Johnson’s special adviser, Dominic Cummings, who is not believed to be a member of the Conservative party.
Cummings, who is not an elected official, exercises strong influence on the new hard-right Tory government and is believed to be one of the key driving forces of a no-deal Brexit.
Source:presstv
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