LONDON, Aug. 27 -- Political opposition leaders at Westminster held their first joint meeting in London Tuesday, aiming at finding a way of stopping Prime Minister from taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal.
The meeting, chaired by main opposition leader, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, was also attended by the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru, the Party of Wales.
Corbyn has been calling for a vote of no confidence next month in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the hope of forming a temporary unity government which he wants to lead.
But in a joint statement issued by the party leaders after their meeting, it was clear a confidence vote had been shunted to the back burner.
Instead, Corbyn agreed to work with oppositions leaders at Westminster to prioritize opposing a no-deal Brexit using legislation. A no-confidence vote in the government was reserved as a last resort.
In the statement they said the leaders of the opposition parties held a productive and detailed meeting on stopping "a disastrous no-deal exit from the EU".
The statement added that Corbyn outlined legal advice he received from Labour's shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti.
The advice called any plan by Johnson to suspend the British parliament to force through a no deal as "the gravest abuse of power and attack upon UK constitutional principle in living memory".
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