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OnDoutside

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10. There's talk that there will be a no-confidence vote. What he might do after that is new territory,

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #7)

Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:39 AM

Aug 2019

and is a proper constitutional crisis. Jeremy Corbyn has already tried to rally the anti-Brexit groups behind him, to elect him as Prime Minister for enough time to kill Brexit and call a new General Election, but the Lib Dems and others have already said they would not accept him as PM. What I hope now is that a compromise candidate would be chosen as PM, and the same plan can happen, but Corbyn might try to block that.

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