British Opposition Parties Will Block PM Johnson's Second Bid To Call An Early Election

Reuters: Opposition to block British PM Johnson's early election bid

LONDON (Reuters) - British opposition parties said on Friday that they would block Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second bid to call an early general election in mid-October, setting up a showdown with the government over delaying Brexit.

Brexit remains up in the air more than three years after Britons voted to leave the EU in a 2016 referendum. Options range from a turbulent no-deal exit to abandoning the whole endeavour.

Johnson says he wants to take Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31 with or without a deal with the bloc. But he lost his parliamentary majority this week and expelled 21 lawmakers from his ruling Conservative Party’s group in parliament after they supported an opposition plan to try to bloc a no-deal exit.

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WNU Editor: This is why I like the Canadian parliamentary system. When the government loses confidence from the Parliament, an election is called. In the U.K. .... not so clear. The net result is the U.K. government is now in limbo, and if this continues I do not think the electorate is going to be forgiving. Brexit is an issue that clearly needs to be resolved by the electorate, but the opposition has a different idea.

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