By Ben Kerrigan-
Uk prime minister, Boris Johnson has said he will trigger an early election if Mps do not back his Brexit deal. Johnson said his bill will not affect worker’s right and urged Mp to support the deal so that the country can heal and move on.
“If this House backs this legislation, if we ratify this new deal…we can get Brexit done and move out the country on, and we can de-escalate no-deal preparations and turn them off next week,” the prime minister said. He said worker’s rights will not be affected by the bill at all, but all indications are that Mps will vote down the bill when they vote at 7.30pm tonight.
Meanwhile the European leaders remain uncertain what way parliament will go but don’t appear very optimistic. Speaking at the European Parliament today are still in the hands of London, we are waiting for London,” said Manfred Weber, the leader of the centre-right EPP, the largest group in the parliament. ”For us as the European Parliament I would say we have the same right to do a proper assessment of text that is on our table.
There is no need to rush, there is no need to hurry up, we have the same rights to discuss it … that’s why I see no chance that this week we will have any kind of decision
Mr Tusk, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said: “In truth it has pained me to spend so much of this mandate dealing with Brexit when I have thought of nothing less than how this union could do better for its citizens. A waste of time and a waste of energy.”
He added: “We need now to watch events in Westminster closely. But it’s not possible or imaginable that this [European] parliament would ratify this agreement before Westminster – first London, then Brussels and Strasbourg.”
In the same debate, which took place on Thursday morning in Strasbourg, MEPs from across the political spectrum expressed similar sentiments.