Early UK general election now a step closer
Channel: Top 10 Photo
Date: 29/10/2019

MPs are debating Boris Johnson's call for a general election on 12 December after Labour threw its weight behind a pre-Christmas poll.

Jeremy Corbyn said he had changed his mind on a snap election after the EU gave the UK another Brexit extension.

The prime minister can only hold an election with the support of MPs - who have blocked it three times.

No 10 says it will abandon its latest attempt if MPs support giving 16 and 17-year olds and EU nationals the vote.

Labour has said it will back any amendment calling for these groups to be allowed to take part in the proposed election.

Mr Corbyn told MPs: "We want the election to involve as many people as possible."

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Downing Street said extending voting rights in this way would delay any election by as much as six months.

A Downing Street spokesman said: "Nothing would sum up how broken this Parliament is if after them all standing up there and saying they want a general election - they vote for an amendment which is deliberately designed to actually prevent the delivery of a general election before 2020."

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