Minority rule idea floated by Labour

LABOUR WILL work with other parties to decide whether to attempt to oust Theresa May if her Brexit deal fails.

Jeremy Corbyn’s party could either attempt to force a general election or seek to form a minority government following a defeat for Mrs May tomorrow, according to shadow Cabinet ministers.

Senior party figures would not be drawn on whether Labour would table a motion of no-confidence in the Government after the vote, indicating they would wait and see what happens in the aftermath of a Government defeat on such a defining policy issue.

Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “Once the deal falls, the Prime Minister is under a duty then to set out what she is going to do next.

“What we would urge her to do is either call a general election – because she wouldn’t have the confidence of Parliament to carry on as Prime Minister and when a Government that can’t pass a key policy proposal such as this, I question their legitimacy to carry on.

Shadow Cabinet Office minister and Yorkshire MP Jon Trickett told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “Our preferred option, very, very strongly, is that we refresh the Parliament, though we are ready to form a minority government should that be necessary – and it could happen on Wednesday morning – and to begin to reset the negotiation and take the country forward in a much better direction.”