Brexit Clash: Jeremy Corbyn seeks allies against Boris Johnson

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Jeremy Corbyn launches a new move to get Premier Boris Johnson out of Downing Street no. 10 to distribute and thus prevent a hard Brexit. On Tuesday, the Labor Chief wants to meet with influential MPs from other parties to advance plans for a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister. This is reported by the BBC.

Johnson's government has only a majority of one seat in the lower house. In the coming week, the British parliamentarians come back from the summer vacation. At the G7 summit in Biarritz, Johnson had said he was "slightly more optimistic" that an orderly exit from the EU was possible.

In the "Independent" Corbyn attacked the plans of the Prime Minister to lead the United Kingdom on 31 October, if necessary, even without a withdrawal agreement from the EU, as a "banker Brexit": In the expected crisis then made laws from which only rich benefited.

"The fight against a no-deal Brexit is not one between those who want to leave the EU and those who want to continue membership," Corbyn wrote in the paper. "It is a struggle of many against the few who hijack the outcome of the referendum (to quit) to add even more power and wealth to those above."

Corbyn again called for a new referendum or new elections. It could come to elections within a few weeks, should a motion of no confidence against Johnson succeed and no other politician can set up a stable government.

It is also possible that Johnson even proposes flash elections before 31 October - Labor could hardly refuse after Corbyns call for new elections, reports the "Guardian". For an early election Johnson would need a two-thirds majority in parliament.