{"id":392232,"date":"2019-01-09T20:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-urges-snap-votes-if-brexit-deal-is-rejected\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:32:36","slug":"presstv-uk-labour-urges-snap-votes-if-brexit-deal-is-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-urges-snap-votes-if-brexit-deal-is-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK Labour urges snap votes if Brexit deal is rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The leader of UK\u2019s opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to call general elections if she fails to go through the parliament next week with her controversial European Union withdrawal agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn told May on Wednesday during a debate in the British parliament that the prime minister\u2019s best option after a possible rejection of her Brexit deal in the chamber next week would be to call snap votes because her political mandate would no longer be tenable in those circumstances. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2019\/01\/09\/3376320809941748878\/480x270_MP4_3376320809941748878.mp4\">\n<div>\n<p>\n<video controls=\"\" style=\"top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\">Your browser does not support HTML5 video.<source src=\"https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2019\/01\/09\/3376320809941748878\/480x270_MP4_3376320809941748878.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><\/video><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo, if her deal is defeated next week, as I hope and expect it will, will the Prime Minister do the right thing and let the people have a real say and call a general election?\u201d said Corbyn at the first Prime Minister\u2019s Questions (PMQs) of the year in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Corbyn has repeatedly criticized May for the way she has negotiated Brexit with the EU since June&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/09\/585314\/UK-parliament-debate-Brexit-Corbyn-May\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of UK\u2019s opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to call general elections if she fails to go through the parliament next week with her controversial European Union withdrawal agreement. Jeremy Corbyn told May on Wednesday during a debate in the British parliament that the prime minister\u2019s best option after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}