Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a fresh bid for an election to break the Brexit deadlock
“I think we’ve just got to bring this to some sort of resolution. We’ve had many votes in the last 12 months in parliament and I think a general election might be a way to sort it all out,” one commuter, Matt Finch, 36, told Reuters outside London’s Charing Cross rail station.While almost all British politicians agree that an election is needed, Johnson’s opponents want to inflict maximum political damage by preventing his last-minute deal from being ratified before the poll.
Such is the lack of trust in parliament, lawmakers are squabbling about almost everything from the sequencing of Brexit to the election date. Two opposition parties, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party, want an election on Dec. 9.
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