ELECTION 2019 - Last night PM Johnson once again called for a December 12th general election. "If [Parliament] genuinely want more time to study this excellent deal they can have it but they have to agree to a genreal election"
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to be drawn: "“Tomorrow the EU will decide whether there’s going to be an extension or not,” Corbyn told broadcasters this evening. “That extension will obviously encompass whether there’s a no-deal or not. Let’s find that out tomorrow.”
Corbyn has previously said Labour will back an election as soon as the EU agrees an extension to the looming Article 50 deadline. Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, an early election bill requires a two thirds majority in the Commons, and therefore needs Labour support
Labour MPs are divided over the prospect of an early vote. Neil Coyle tells @paulwaugh 140 have contacted Corbyn telling him to oppose the bill. Shadow Cabinet Minister Jon Trickett is more bullish: "Our troops are ready, the party is fully prepared. Let’s get at them!!”
@paulwaugh EU leaders will be meeting at 10am today Brussels time to discuss the UK's application for an Article 50 extension. It is unclear when a decisions will arrive, or how long the extension offered will be.
Treasury advisors announced last night that the Budget scheduled for November 6th will be cancelled less than a day after Chancellor Sajid Javid announced on ITV's Peston that it would be going ahead.
ELECTION 2019 - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn last night rejected Boris Johnson's call for an early election. "We absolutely support an early election", Corbyn said, but insisted the possibility of "no deal" Brexit needed to be taken "off the table" before his party would back one
ELECTION 2019 - EU leaders agreed yesterday to extend the Article 50 deadline, which fell on October 31st, but have not agreed a new date. Chancellor Sajid Javid admitted yesterday that the government's deadline to deliver Brexit by Oct 31st "could not be met"
ELECTION 2019 - Sir John Curtice @whatukthinks on the possibility of a Christmas election: "It might be argued it is rather more difficult to hold an election in December now than it once was...we're happy to go out in the winter for Christmas, but apparently not for politics"
ELECTION 2019 - The FT's @PickardJE reports that Labour MPs will be whipped to abstain on Monday's early election vote, with one senior figure telling him "“Right now it feels like we have no strategy, no message, no message discipline,”
ELECTION 2019: Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar of @novaramedia is more bullish tweeting “The time for a general election is now — you’ve got the policies , you’ve got the activists, and you’ve got a plan to sort out Brexit in 6 months. Hit the big red button.”
ELECTION 2019: In the @nytimes @jennirsl reports Britain is heading for a "scorched earth" election - "It will be nihilism", one Conservative insider tells her - "If you campaign in fury you will govern in the interests of rage". nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opi…
@nytimes @jennirsl ELECTION 2019: an update on the polling situation from @JohnRentoul
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1188145386218754049
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
