* Labour to publish legislation plan on Tuesday
* Strategy will focus on stopping no-deal -Starmer
* Govt declines to guarantee it will abide by legislation
* Gove says some food prices could rise if no deal (Adds report of cancellation of Johnson's meeting with Gauke)
By Paul Sandle
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - British lawmakers opposed to a no-deal Brexit will attempt to pass a law this week to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from letting Britain crash out of the European Union on Oct. 31, the opposition Labour Party's Brexit spokesman said.
Senior minister Michael Gove refused, however, to guarantee the government would abide by any such legislation.
Johnson has pledged to deliver Brexit with or without a deal, but opposition lawmakers - and several from his own Conservatives - want to push through legislation to rule out no-deal before parliament is suspended in just over a week's time.
Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said the plan, which will be published on Tuesday, had one "very simple" aim - to stop Johnson taking Britain out of the EU without a deal.
"Obviously, if we are at the 31st of October, that will require an extension," Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday.
"But I think this should be a very short, simple exercise designed to ensure we don't crash out without a deal."
Gove, one of Johnson's key ministers who is coordinating no-deal contingency plans, said he believed a majority of lawmakers would back the prime minister and defeat the attempt.
"We know the prime minister is making progress with our European friends and allies in attempting to secure a deal, and I don't believe that people will want to erect a roadblock in his way," he said.
Asked whether the government would abide by any legislation passed to prevent a no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31, Gove said: "Let's see what the legislation is that (Starmer) puts forward."
Starmer said later it was "breathtaking" for ministers not to confirm the government would comply with legislation passed lawfully. "No government is above the law," he said on Twitter.
NATIONAL INTEREST
David Gauke, a former British justice secretary and a Johnson critic, said he would meet the prime minister on Monday to hear his plan to deliver a Brexit deal he could support.
But Gauke said he was prepared to disobey Conservative discipline and be expelled by the party if he was not persuaded.
"Sometimes there is a point where you have to judge between your own personal interests and the national interest, and the national interest has to come first," he told Sky News. "But I hope it doesn't come to that."