Britain's Parliament rejected Boris Johnson's call for fresh elections for a second time in a week
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stuck to his pledge that the U.K. would leave the European Union on Oct. 31—even as a law came into force preventing the country from leaving on that date without an agreement and Parliament again rejected his bid to call an election before then.
In his first meeting with his Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, since taking office in July, Mr. Johnson on Monday insisted he wanted to leave the EU with an agreement to smooth the U.K.’s departure from the bloc. Although he outlined some ideas,...
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