Parliament once again rebuffs the British PM, voting against a general election. A lawmaker called the current situation 'a national crisis.'
In a third stinging defeat in two days, the House of Commons roundly dismissed the UK Prime Minister's demand for an election. Hours earlier, they had voted to bind Johnson's hands and prevent him from taking the UK out of the EU without a negotiated deal.Rejecting the government's demands for an election, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn compared it to"an offer of an apple to Snow White from the Wicked Queen... offering the poison of a no deal.
Among the 21 were eight former Cabinet ministers, two former treasury secretaries and the grandson of Winston Churchill. One of those ejected from the party, former foreign office minister Alistair Burt, savaged Johnson in the Commons."What are people going to think about what we have left and what we have lost?" he asked.The Prime Minister ended his second day of parliamentary misery in a deeply weakened position -- largely of his own making.
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