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Before a vote of no confidence, the legislation instructing that if no deal is reached by 31 October, the prime minister must request an extension from the the EU has to be safeguarded through amendments or whatever, otherwise we might end up leaving by default because of the election timing (assuming the vote of no confidence would be carried - no guarantee Labour would vote for it at the moment because they feel an election after 31 October would be more advantageous for them).

And don't forget the specter of the Brexit party in all this. No one in their right mind wants to hand them a clear path to victory, or at least gaining a significant number of seats. At the moment they're trying to frame this as "the People versus the Establishment/Parliament/the judiciary" etc. (as are Johnson et al.).

On social media today, I've seen frothing about "activist judges", "unelected judges" and all that (the latter provoking the question of whether whoever posted it would be in favor of elected judges, which would be a disaster). This is rhetoric I've often seen in US RW circles. The fact it's being imported into the UK is disturbing, though some of those spouting it may be bots, or at least inspired by bots.