BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg tweeted she had written to the Labour leader asking him to back the motion from her party. The early day motion reads: “That this House has no confidence in Boris Johnson as Prime Minister; rejects the option of the UK crashing out of the EU; and rejects the option of Parliament being prorogued before Friday 8 November 2019.” but Labour immediately rejected the motion, describing it as a childish and irresponsible game playing by the Lib Dems. 

Labour tweeted: “As Jo Swinson knows, a no confidence vote now will only strengthen Boris Johnson’s hand and further his march towards no deal.

“This is childish and irresponsible game playing by the Lib Dems who are more interested in attacking Labour than stopping no deal.”

Ms Swinson had issued the motion on the last day it can be tabled before Parliament’s summer recess.

MPs return from summer recess on September 3 – less than two months before the UK is due to leave the European Union on October 31.

Upon their return, they would have debated and vote on the motion on their first day back after recess.

If the motion was passed, a statutory 14-day calendar day period would have started, during which time the confidence motion could have been passed.

But if MPs didn’t passed a subsequent motion by the end of September 17, a general election coould immediately triggered.

The following day – September 18 – is the earliest date the Crown proclamation can be made to set the date of a general election.

September 19 would be the first day Parliament can be dissolved, with October 24 the earliest possible polling day before a possible general election – exactly a week before Britain is set to leave the EU.

During Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Corbyn once again demanded new Prime Minister Mr Johnson call a genera lelection to enable the British people to decide who should lead the country.

He warned Labour themselves would table a motion of no confidence in the Government when they believe they can win. 

The Labour said: “It requires a majority to win a motion of no confidence. I will put one down at a time of our choosing when we think it will be successful,” he said.

He added: “Conservative and DUP MPs need to recognise this is a Government that barely has an arithmetic majority in Parliament and certainly doesn’t have the confidence of the people of this country.

“This country deserves a general election to decide which Government it wants, who it wants in government and how we are going to deal with the glaring inequality and injustice in our society.

“The new Prime Minister didn’t offer the solution to any of those issues. All he offered was a continuation of austerity and more tax cuts for the very richest.”

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