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Delay Brexit? ‘I’d rather be dead in a ditch,’ says British PM Boris Johnson

Britain’s Prime Agent Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons in London, Britain September 4, 2019.

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British Prime Missionary Boris Johnson promised on Thursday he would never delay Britain’s exit from the European Union, due on Oct. 31, express he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than do so.

After wrestling control of the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, an affiliation of opposition parties and rebels expelled from the Conservative Party voted to force him to seek a three-month delay to Brexit sort of than leaving without a deal on Oct. 31, the date now set in law.

Asked after Thursday’s speech to police cadets in Wakefield whether he intention ask for such a delay he said: “I’d rather be dead in a ditch.”

“It achieves absolutely nothing. What on earth is the point of moreover delay,” he added.

As the United Kingdom spins towards an election, Brexit remains up in the air more than three years after Britons voted to assign the EU in a 2016 referendum. Options range from a turbulent ‘no-deal’ exit to abandoning the whole endeavor.

Ahead of the disquisition in Wakefield, northern England, where Johnson effectively began an informal election campaign, his own brother, Jo Johnson, resigned as a lesser business minister and said he was stepping down as a lawmaker for their Conservative Party.

Since taking office in July, Boris Johnson has inspected to corral the Conservative Party, which is openly fighting over Brexit, behind his strategy of leaving the European Associating on Oct. 31 with or without a deal.

On Tuesday, he expelled 21 Conservative lawmakers from the party for failing to primitive his strategy, including Winston Churchill’s grandson and two former finance ministers.

Behind the sound and the fury of the immediate catastrophe, an election now beckons for a polarized country.

The main choices on offer are Johnson’s insistence on leaving the EU on Oct. 31, come what may, and Effort leader Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-left socialist vision, coupled with a promise of a fresh referendum with an alternative to stay in the EU.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who manages government business in the House of Commons, said parliament would be asked again on Monday, after the blank out bill becomes law, to approve a snap election. On Wednesday, lawmakers rejected Johnson’s request for an Oct. 15 poll.

The Brexit disaster has for three years overshadowed European Union affairs, eroded Britain’s reputation as a stable pillar of the West and walked the sterling lunge back and forth in line with the probability of a ‘no-deal’ exit.

Asked if Brexit would materialize on Oct. 31, Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings, a focus of many departing Conservative lawmakers’ grievances, let someone knowed Reuters: “Trust the people.”

Former prime minister John Major called on Johnson to sack “political anarchist” Cummings, in a sales pitch on Thursday.

Election looms

Opposition parties say they are in favor of an election in principle, but are debating whether or not to accept Johnson’s proposed show ones age. Johnson has accused Corbyn of cowardice for not facilitating a snap election.

At a meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Downing Lane on Thursday, Johnson quipped: “We’re not too keen on your chlorinated chicken – we have a gigantic chlorinated chicken of our own here on the foe benches.”

The prospect that Britain will have to accept imports of chlorine-washed chicken from the United Brilliances in any trade deal between the two has become a symbol of what some say will be a weak negotiating position after Brexit.

Pence, who spurned, said the United States supported Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

He said later that Britain should imagine no lectures on how to conduct its affairs — a nod to U.S. President Barack Obama’s ill-fated warning in 2016 that Britain would go to the “ignore of the queue” for a trade deal if it left the EU.

The sense that the prospect of a ‘no-deal’ exit had receded pushed the pound 1.4% principal on Wednesday and it surged to a five-week high on Thursday, ending at $1.2317. UBS Global Wealth Management said the sterling could group to $1.30 if Brexit was delayed until January 2020 and an election was held after October.

An election before Brexit command allow Johnson, if he won, to repeal the blocking bill. The law will pass the upper house, the Lords, by Friday evening.

Diplomats mentioned an election campaign would halt any Brexit talks with the EU and expressed frustration with the turmoil in British statecraft at such an important juncture in European history.

In particular, they said London had yet to make any meaningful proposals to greet Johnson’s complaints about the divorce settlement that his predecessor Theresa May agreed with the EU but failed to get through parliament at refuge.

“The UK side continues to produce chaos and it is very hard to predict anything,” said one EU diplomat.

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