Boris could back Lib Dem and SNP plot for December 9 election as PM vows to ‘look at all options’ to get Brexit done
BORIS Johnson could back a Lib Dem and SNP plot for a December 9 election as he vows to “look at all options” to get Brexit done.
The PM has opened the door to backing the Remainer plan – ending his hopes of getting Brexit delivered before the national poll.
GET IT DONE
Last week Boris made a high stakes bid to end the crippling Brexit deadlock by demanding Labour meet him in a December 12 poll – giving him enough time to have another go at passing his Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
The PM had also said he would bring back the same motion every day this week in a bid to maximise pressure on Labour and other opposition MPs to trigger an election.
Fuming about opposition MPs, he told his Cabinet last week: “There they are sitting on their a***s, luxuriating in their salaries. It’s morally wrong .
“We will hammer them day after day after day.”
If Labour oppose being held to account by the people yet again, then we will look at all options to get Brexit done including ideas similar to that proposed by other opposition parties.
No10 spokesman
But in a significant turn-around No10 has now said it will consider a different plan put forward by the SNP and Lib Dems to hold the election on December 9.
A Downing Street source said: “We can’t allow parliament to waste 2020 the way it has wasted 2019 – the country wants Brexit done so we can move on and focus the public’s priorities.
“If Labour oppose being held to account by the people yet again, then we will look at all options to get Brexit done including ideas similar to that proposed by other opposition parties.”
CABINET BACKLASH
However, the move by No10 risks a cabinet backlash after senior ministers called the December 9 plan a “gimmick” by opposition parties.
Tory chairman James Cleverly dismissed the idea as it stopped any chance of the PM bringing back his Withdrawal Agreement Bill to implement Brexit beforehand.
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He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr: “We’re not going to be complicit in them stopping Brexit from happening.”
Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan branded the plot a “stunt”.
Labour said it was excluded from the SNP and Lib Dem election pact and is also expected to reject the ploy, branding it an “opportunistic stunt”.
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