The UK prime minister is rapidly running out of options after opposition parties agreed to veto his request for an October general election.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is quickly running out of options after opposition parties agreed to veto his request for an October election.
Johnson's resignation would leave opposition parties the opportunity to appoint a caretaker prime minister who would be charged with delaying Brexit before calling a general election.Johnson became prime minister in July on a promise of taking the UK out of the European Union on October 31 with or without a deal.designed to force Johnson to seek a three-month delay to Brexit.
This means that Johnson's plan has all but run out of road and he is likely to soon face a simple but terrible choice between two options — neither of which is good.Opposition members of Parliament last week passed a law which when it receives royal assent on Monday will force whoever is prime minister on October 16 to request a three-month delay to Brexit.
Because of this risk, Johnson has repeatedly insisted that there are"no circumstances" under which he would seek a delay to Brexit, saying on Thursday that he would sooner"be dead in a ditch" than comply with the law.
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