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Expensive colleague,

I’m writing to you after convening a gathering earlier in the present day with the leaders of different opposition events on how we are able to work collectively, throughout Parliament to forestall a harmful No Deal exit from the European Union. At that assembly, we agreed to make efforts to place celebration politics apart to discover a manner by way of the current disaster.

We all know there’s a majority in parliament in opposition to No Deal. As MPs we’ve voted in opposition to No Deal on a variety of events and we did so within the largest quantity on 27 March of this yr.

As you have been one among 116 Conservative or unbiased MPs who voted in opposition to No Deal that day and aren’t on the federal government frontbench, I’m writing to you to supply to work collectively, in a collegiate, cross celebration spirit, to discover a sensible method to stop No Deal.

That is an pressing activity. The Prime Minister is reportedly planning to droop parliament to pressure by way of a No Deal crash out. This motion could be, based on authorized recommendation I’ve acquired from Shadow Legal professional Normal Shami Chakrabarti, “the gravest abuse of energy and assault upon UK constitutional precept in dwelling reminiscence”.

My view is that holding a normal election after an extension is achieved is the best and most democratic method to stop No Deal and to let the folks of this nation determine our future. Certainly, it’s the finest path to a referendum or leaving the EU with a deal.

I perceive not all colleagues could agree.

So I wish to invite you to affix a dialogue with myself, as chief of the Labour Occasion, and different opposition events, to discover a manner for the clear will of parliament in opposition to No Deal to precise itself. Please reply by e mail.

Yours sincerely,

Jeremy Corbyn