Social media users are urging Britain's workers to undertake a general strike in a desperate bid to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from suspending the British Parliament. #StopTheCoup was one of the United Kingdom's top Twitter trends on Wednesday afternoon as outrage spread over Johnson's plan to suspend the House of Commons from sitting until it is too late for opposition leaders to block a "no-deal" withdrawal from the European Union.
Johnson needs to be held to account by parliament, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday.
It is "an outrage and a threat to our democracy", said Corbyn, who is understood to be seeking a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II to raise his concerns.
Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports.
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