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WORLD NEWS Thursday 14 November 2019

Ex-Tory minister advises public to vote against party

LONDON (AP) — A former largely by differing views
Conservative Party Cabi- on how and whether Britain
net minister said Wednes- should leave the EU. Many
day that giving the party traditional Conservative
a majority in next month's voters, once attracted by
election would be "disas- the party's business-friendly
trous" for the U.K., in the policies and fiscal restraint,
latest example of how the now oppose its focus on
Brexit debate has shattered severing ties with the EU.
traditional party alliances in The Labour Party is also split
this deeply divided country. over Brexit, as well as the
David Gauke, who served left-wing policies of leader
as justice secretary until Jeremy Corbyn.
July, said an outright vic- Last week, a former mem-
tory for Prime Minister Boris ber of Labour's inner circle
Johnson's party would likely took the extraordinary step
result in Britain leaving the of urging voters to support
European Union without an Johnson. Ian Austin, an aide
agreement ensuring unfet- to Gordon Brown, the par-
tered trade with the bloc. ty's last prime minister, said
"A Conservative majority Labour had been poisoned
after the next General Elec- Britain' Prime Minister Boris Johnson raises a pint of beer, as he meets with military veterans at the by "anti-Jewish racism" un-
tion will take us in the direc- Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton, England, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 as part of the General Elec- der Corbyn. Those splits
tion of a very hard Brexit tion campaign trail. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. are providing an opening
and in all likelihood at the Associated Press for smaller parties such as
end of 2020 we will leave the Liberal Democrats and
the implementation period terms," Gauke told the BBC. perity of this country, whole The comments underscore Greens, who have united
without a deal with the "And that I believe would sectors would become un- the upheaval underway behind the goal of stop-
EU ... in effect on no-deal be disastrous for the pros- viable." in British politics, triggered ping Brexit. q

German parliament committee ousts far-right chairman

Associated Press months with broadsides for Germany leader, Bjoern
BERLIN (AP) — The German against opponents and his Hoecke, is the party’s best-
parliament’s legal affairs reaction to the killing of two known far-right firebrand.
committee on Wednes- passers-by in a botched The general secretary
day ousted its chairman, a attack by a right-wing ex- of Chancellor Angela
member of the far-right Al- tremist on a synagogue last Merkel’s center-right Chris-
ternative for Germany par- month. tian Democrats, Paul Ziemi-
ty, amid anger over a string That was followed by a ak, tweeted that Brandner,
of inflammatory comments tweet railing against an “Hoecke’s Berlin outpost,”
he had made. award for singer Udo Lin- had been “unworthy” as
The committee voted 37-6 denberg, who is critical of chairman and that “his an-
Wednesday to remove Alternative for Germany, in ti-Semitism is intolerable.”
chairman Stephan Brand- which Brandner used the Brandner has portrayed
ner — the first time in the term “Judaslohn” — a bibli- himself as a victim of un-
parliament’s 70-year history cal reference to the “blood founded accusations. On
that a committee chair- money” Judas Iscariot re- Wednesday, he accused Stephan Brandner of the German Alternative for Germany (AfD)
man has been voted out. ceived for betraying Jesus. other parties of “naked party delivers a statement prior to a meeting of the legal af-
Brandner has repeatedly Brandner comes from the hypocrisy” and declared fairs committee of the German federal parliament, Bundestag,
angered lawmakers from eastern state of Thuringia, that “this is not a defeat for in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov 13. 2019. Associated Press
other parties over recent whose regional Alternative us.”q