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British PM pushes for Brexit deal vote after being forced to seek delay
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 21 - 10 - 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will again try to put his Brexit deal to a vote in parliament on Monday after he was forced by his opponents to send a letter seeking a delay from the European Union.
With just 10 days left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on Oct. 31, the divorce is again in disarray as Britain's political class argue over whether to leave with a deal, exit without a deal or hold another referendum.
Although Johnson hammered out a deal in grueling talks with EU officials last week, it was not certain that the speaker of the House of Commons would allow a vote on the deal on Monday.
Johnson was ambushed by opponents in parliament on Saturday who demanded a change to the sequencing of the ratification of the deal, exposing the prime minister to a law which demanded he request a delay until Jan. 31.
In a twist that illustrates the extent to which Brexit has strained the norms of British statecraft, Johnson sent the note to the EU unsigned - and added another signed letter arguing against what he cast as a deeply corrosive delay.
"A further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners, and the relationship between us," Johnson said his own letter, signed "Boris Johnson".
The EU has not yet given a clear response.
The British government insisted on Sunday the country will leave the EU on Oct. 31, and plans to put the deal to a vote in parliament later on Monday though it is unclear if the House of Commons speaker, John Bercow, will allow such a vote.
Bercow will make a statement on the proceedings shortly after parliament opens at 1330 GMT.
If Bercow, who said on Saturday he was blindsided by the government's debate proposal, does not allow it then the government will have to try to push on with the legislation needed for ratification of Johnson's deal.
But that is a path that exposes Johnson to attempts by opponents to wreck the agreement.
Sterling, which has rallied more than 6 percent since Oct. 10, slid from five-month highs on Monday. It hit as low as $1.2850 in Asian trading before settling around $1.2920 in London, down 0.5 percent on the day.
Goldman Sachs raised the probability of the United Kingdom leaving with a ratified deal to 70 percent from 65 percent, cut its view of the chances of a "no-deal" Brexit to 5 percent from 10 percent and left its view on no Brexit at all unchanged at 25 percent.
The EU, which has grappled with the tortuous Brexit crisis since Britons voted 52 percent-48 percent to leave in a 2016 referendum, decided on Sunday to play for time rather than rush to decide on Johnson's request.
From the EU's point of view, extension options range from just an additional month until the end of November to half a year or longer.
Anti-Brexit campaigners said they would ask a Scottish court on Monday to delay its ruling on a legal challenge that sought to force Johnson to comply with a law requiring him to request a delay to Brexit in the event that no agreement had been approved.
EU Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received Johnson's unsigned request and is consulting with EU leaders on how to react.
In London, Johnson's ministers said they were confident they had the numbers to push a deal through parliament where opponents were plotting to derail the deal he had assured the EU that he could ratify.
But the opposition Labour Party is planning changes to the legislation needed for Brexit that would make the deal unacceptable to swathes of Johnson's own party including a proposals for another referendum.
Johnson's former allies, the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said they would not back a proposal for a customs union with the EU — a step that, if passed, would doom Johnson's deal.
"We are clear where we stand on the customs union as something that we cannot support and will not support, and I believe that that will be the stance we will have later on when we see the wording," DUP lawmaker Jim Shannon said.
If Johnson's deal is scuppered just days before the United Kingdom's planned departure, it would leave Johnson a choice: try to leave without a deal or accept a delay. — Reuters


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