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One senior Labour figure said that the party would be “crazy” to launch a vote of no-confidence any time soon, because it could give Mr Johnson an opportunity to take the UK out of the EU without a deal under the cover of an election campaign.
“There’s a broad agreement among us, most of the nationalists and also some of the ex-Tory rebels, that the most important thing is getting past October 31. We can’t lose sight of that. All that matters is stopping no-deal,” he said. “Beyond that point we’re in really uncharted waters.”
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, opposition parties have been discussing their next move, with some Labour MPs wary of backing a snap general election in which they could lose their seats.
Others fear that Mr Johnson could shift the date of an election to November, exploiting loopholes in anti-no deal legislation in order to crash Britain out of the EU without a deal during the election campaign.
A Labour spokesperson confirmed that the party was unlikely to trigger a vote of no-confidence in the government any time soon.
He said that the party was looking at “every mechanism we can do to bring about an election” but that the immediate priority was to ensure the UK did not crash out of the EU without a deal. [...]
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