British parliament wants to block “hard Brexit”

Tomorrow, the British House of Commons meets after the summer break and there will be a vote on whether to block British Prime Minister Boris Johnson from having a Brexit deal, Financial Times informs. Johnson must not only face the opposition parties, which by definition do not support his policy, but also a group of deputies from his own party.

Philip Hammond, the treasury chancellor in Theresa May’s government, is the leader of an informal group of conservatives opposing Britain’s non-contractual exit from the EU. He is supported by 15-20 conservative MPs who are ready to cooperate with the opposition to prevent the no-deal scenario. In response, Johnson announced that he would ban the party defectors and that if the way to a no-deal Brexit were blocked, he would dissolve the parliament for a snap election on October 14.

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