British lawmakers, capping what may be
one of the most abysmal starts any British leader has ever endured, on
Monday rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bid to hold a new
national election.
Read more at: For Boris Johnson, Another Bad Day and Another Big Defeat in Parliament - The New York Times
For Britain’s
bare-knuckled new prime minister, it was a day of defeat. Parliament’s
rejection of a snap election came as a new law went into effect on
Monday blocking Mr. Johnson from pursuing a “no deal” withdrawal from
the European Union.
Parliament is now
suspended until mid-October, the result of earlier political maneuvering
by the prime minister. But by Monday’s end, it seemed clear that if Mr.
Johnson had thought he could outfox Parliament by suspending it,
sidelining lawmakers at a critical moment in the Brexit debate, he was
the one who had been outmaneuvered.
Read more at: For Boris Johnson, Another Bad Day and Another Big Defeat in Parliament - The New York Times
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