NewsHero (beta) Protesters In London Want New Brexit Vote
October 26, 2019 - Issue 3
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Protesters In London Want New Brexit Vote
Johnson calls for election amid deadlock
Demonstrators gathered in London to call for a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. Simon Dawson/Reuters
Hundreds of thousands of Britons marched through London recently to demand a new Brexit referendum, also celebrating an official vote to postpone Britain’s departure from the EU.
Labour member of the House of Lords Andrew Adonis commented the same day that “voters will neither forgive nor forget” if lawmakers allowed “this miserable Brexit to proceed without people being given the final say.”
Unable to see his Brexit plan approved by the October 31 deadline and having asked for an extension until January 31, Prime Minister Boris Johnson challenged lawmakers this week to approve a general election in December, with hopes of winning a popular mandate to fulfill his Brexit vision.
The opposition Labour party sees the move however as political gameplay rather than a genuine effort to effectively solve the Brexit crisis.
As officials prepare to debate Johnson’s deal, hundreds of angry unionists in Northern Ireland gathered to plan how they would resist the agreement should it become the law. Johnson’s proposal they say would draw a border down the Irish Sea, as Northern Ireland remains in the EU’s customs union and single market amid Britain’s withdrawal.
One activist expressed feelings of betrayal by calling the Brexit negations a “one-sided peace process.”
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