UK Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will back early general election according to a statement released on Tuesday.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “I have consistently said that we are ready for an election and our support is subject to a ‘no deal’ Brexit being off the table.”
He said the decision by EU leaders on Monday to delay Brexit to January 31 meant that “for the next three months, our condition of taking No Deal off the table has now been met.
“We will now launch the most ambitious and radical campaign for real change our country has ever seen,” he said in a statement.
Johnson has called for an election on December 12 but Labour and other opposition parties are pushing for a date nearer to December 9.
Boris Johnson’s government will accept a proposal – if it’s tabled by opposition parties – for a general election to be held on December 11, a senior government adviser confirmed to CNN.
Corbyn told his top team of policy advisers on Tuesday the party’s condition for supporting a new election had been met and “we will now launch the most ambitious and radical” election campaign.
On Monday, Boris Johnson failed to get the two-thirds majority in parliament he needed to secure an election under existing laws, after opposition parties largely abstained.
He says an election is necessary to end the deadlock over Brexit, which was supposed to have happened on Thursday
