LABOUR is ready to grant Boris Johnson a general election on Tuesday November 26 if the PM loses his fight to deliver a Halloween Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn will agree to back a new bid by Boris to dissolve Parliament and go to the polls if he tables a vote for it on October 21, The Sun has learned.
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The date is the first available in the Commons after a now likely Brexit delay would have been enforced with the talks in collapse.
Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, an election would then be held 25 full working days later.
The left wing Labour boss will try to regain the initiative over an imminent election to end Parliament’s deadlock on Brexit, having already refused Mr Johnson’s pleas for one twice last month.
In a speech in Northampton he will lay down a fresh gauntlet to the PM by telling him: “It’s simple: obey the law, take No Deal off the table and then let’s have the election.
“We’re ready and champing at the bit. There’s only one reason it hasn’t happened yet – we can’t trust you.”
No10 sources said the PM still wants to go to the country as soon as possible.
A cluttered Winter calendar also make it vital to have the poll before the end of November for the Tories to have their case fully heard.
The PM must host a NATO summit of world leaders in Watford for two days on December 3 and 4, and the party season run up to Christmas kicks in the following week.
But Mr Corbyn still faces a serious revolt to agreeing to a general election from Remainer Labour MPs, who want to hold a second Brexit referendum first.
That could leave Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn struggling to reach the two thirds majority of MPs needed to hold one under the 2011 Fixed Term Parliaments Act.
Tony Blair last night dubbed an election as “the wrong way to break the deadlock”.
Calling for a referendum instead, the former Labour PM added: “The right way to decide it is not on the general question of who governs but on the specific question of Brexit”.
Scots delay
A SCOTTISH court yesterday postponed its decision on whether to force the PM to accept a Brexit extension if he refuses to obey the Benn Act.
Pro-EU campaigners want judges to issue an order allowing a court official to send an extension request letter to the EU — should Mr Johnson fail to reach a deal at a summit on October 19.
They will be entitled to return to Edinburgh’s Court of Session on October 21 if the PM does not obey the Act.
