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Johnson defiant after British parliament votes to force Brexit delay
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 19 - 10 - 2019

A defiant Boris Johnson said he would not negotiate a further delay to Britain's departure from the European Union after parliament voted on Saturday to postpone a vote on his Brexit deal.
Parliament voted 322 to 306 in favor of an amendment put forward by Oliver Letwin, a former Conservative cabinet minister.
According to legislation passed earlier, the vote means Johnson is obliged to write to the European Union seeking a delay beyond Britain's scheduled departure date of Oct. 31.
But Johnson has repeatedly vowed he will not do this and on Saturday he stuck to that line. "I will not negotiate a delay with the EU and neither does the law compel me to do so," Johnson told parliament.
"I will tell our friends and colleagues in the EU exactly what I have told everyone else in the last 88 days that I have served as prime minister: that further delay would be bad for this country, bad for the European Union and bad for democracy."
The vote however means the government will not hold a vote on its Brexit deal on Saturday as planned. Johnson said he would put it to a vote on Tuesday.
However, British lawmakers will debate and vote on Monday on whether to approve Johnson's Brexit deal, the leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Saturday.
"Monday's business will now be a debate on a motion relating to Section 13 (1B) of the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018," Rees-Mogg said after the vote.
Section 13 (1B) covers the formal approval vote parliament is required to hold in order to pass a deal.
Letwin's amendment proposed that a decision on whether to back a Brexit deal be deferred until all the legislation needed to implement it has been passed through parliament.
Even though Johnson believes this can be achieved by Oct. 31, others think it would need a short 'technical' delay in Britain's departure from the EU.
A law passed by Johnson's opponents obliges him to ask the EU for a Brexit delay until Jan. 31, 2020 if he could not secure approval for his deal by the end of Saturday.
"My aim is to ensure that Boris's deal succeeds," Letwin said earlier. But he wanted "an insurance policy which prevents the UK from crashing out on Oct. 31 by mistake if something goes wrong during the passage of the implementing legislation".
Three years after Britain voted 52-48% to leave the European project, Johnson struck a divorce deal with the bloc in Brussels on Thursday.
Meanwhile, thousands of anti-Brexit protesters gathered outside Britain's parliament cheered as lawmakers voted on Saturday to withhold support for Johnson's EU exit deal until formal ratification legislation had passed.
"Hear us," many of the protesters said outside the 800-year-old parliament building while others chanted "People's vote".
Hundreds of thousands of Britons had marched through central London towards parliament to demand a new Brexit referendum, with many crowding into the grass square outside to watch the result on a big screen.
"It's something that needs a lot of scrutiny and it's a mini win for the remainers. Everything is so finely balanced," said John Warman, 53, a marine adjuster from West Byfleet.
Bill Venables, 58, who works for the local authority in Bristol in western England, said: "It's good news that the opposition to Boris Johnson's deal is solid because there were signs that it would melt away but it hasn't." – Reuters


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