Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, has already called for a general election. "Whoever becomes the new Tory leader must let the people decide our country’s future, through an immediate General Election," he said.
While calling for an election in the immediate aftermath of a prime minister's resignation is hardly radical, the fact that Labour believes the best way to decide the country's future is through a general election and not a second referendum is worth noting.
Corbyn has for months been under pressure from his party to clarify if he would formally back a second vote – in which Remain would be an option for voters.
Labour has been on election footing for some time and advisors have been privately saying that pushing the government to an election is their priority.
But while Labour is clearly confident that while the Conservative chaos is a huge opportunity, it's far from clear that an election now wouldn't return another hung parliament – in which no party has a majority.
Labour's plan to bounce the country into an election might be a clever plot to make short-term immediate gains. But the consequences of a lengthy election campaign have an all-too-familiar whiff. Getting into the weeds of a national campaign will allow both parties to pretend Brexit isn't happening, which is sort of how we ended up in this mess in the first place.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/theresa-may-resignation-announcement-0524-gbr-intl/index.html
2019-05-24 10:28:00Z
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