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Wednesday 6 november 2019
UK parties promise end to Brexit agony if they win election

By JILL LAWLESS sis needs to be resolved
Associated Press but it must be done dem-
LONDON (AP) — Britain's ocratically." Meanwhile,
three major national po- the centrist, pro-EU Liberal
litical parties wooed wea- Democrats are trying to
ry voters on Tuesday, all lure voters away from the
promising an end to Brexit bigger parties with a prom-
wrangling if they win next ise to scrap Brexit alto-
month's national elec- gether. They said Tuesday
tion — but offering starkly that ending the economic
different visions of how to uncertainty around Brexit
achieve that. would boost the economy
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and allow the government
says if his Conservative Par- to put another 50 billion
ty wins the Dec. 12 poll, he pounds ($64 billion) — what
will get Parliament to ratify they call a "remain bonus"
his divorce deal with the — into public services.
European Union and Britain The party currently has just
will leave the bloc by Jan. 20 of the 650 seats in Parlia-
31. ment, but leader Jo Swin-
The main opposition La- son said Tuesday that this
bour Party says it will take election "is a moment for
a bit longer — six months seismic change."
— to end more than three Leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats party Jo Swinson speaks at the launch of the party's general "This is not a normal elec-
years of uncertainty trig- election campaign in London, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. tion," she told supporters
gered by voters' decision in Associated Press in London. "It's not a typi-
2016 to leave the 28-nation on those terms or remain in that "Labour's plan for Brexit told Labour supporters in cal choice about whether
EU after more than four de- the bloc. is clear and simple" and Harlow, a town northeast you want the red team or
cades of membership. Labour leader Jeremy Cor- said he was right to try to of London that voted in the blue team (Labour or
Left-of-center Labour says byn hasn't said which side appeal both to the 52% of 2016 to leave the EU. "La- the Conservatives) to be
if it wins, within six months it he would support in such voters who opted to leave bour stands not just for the in government for a few
will negotiate a new Brexit a referendum. Johnson the EU in 2016 and the 48% 52% or the 48%, but for the more years. . Because on
divorce deal that keeps urged him in an open letter who wanted to remain. 99%." this issue they merge into
close relations between Monday to "come clean "Anybody seeking to be- Corbyn said "the Brexit cri- one."q
Britain and the EU, then and explain what your plan come prime minister must
hold a national referen- really is." talk to and listen to the
dum on whether to leave Corbyn insisted Tuesday whole country," Corbyn 3 Italian firefighters killed
in building explosion

Firefighters search among debris following an explosion in a
building in Quargnento, Northern Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
Associated Press
Associated Press which "makes us think that
MILAN (AP) — Three Ital- the explosion was deliber-
ian firefighters were killed ate."
early Tuesday in a building No motive was immedi-
explosion that appears to ately clear, but Alessandria
have been deliberate in police superintendent Mi-
the northwestern region of chele Morelli told Sky TG24
Piedmont. Sky TG24 report- there was no indication of
ed that the firefighters were terrorist involvement.
responding to a report of Sky TG24 reported that
an explosion in an unoccu- the timer was remote-con-
pied farm building in Ales- trolled, and that the owner
sandria province when a of the farm building, which
second, stronger blast oc- had been renovated and
curred. Three other first re- has been up for sale for
sponders were injured. two years, had been ques-
Prosecutor Enrico Cierci tioned. An adjacent farm
told reporters that a timer building that was part of
and a gas canister have the complex was not dam-
been found in the rubble, aged. q