BREAKING: The British House of Commons approves a Dec. 12 general election. The vote will comes after months of deadlock over Brexit.
Britain is set to hold an early election on Dec. 12, after a bill authorizing the vote was passed by the House of Commons.
But after three years of inconclusive political wrangling over Brexit, voters are weary and the results of an election hard to predict.British lawmakers have voted against changing the date of a proposed early election to Dec. 9, sticking with the government’s choice of Dec. 12. The House of Commons sent the bill calling for a Dec. 12 election past the stage known as second reading without a formal vote.Opposition lawmakers want a Dec. 9 election, partly out of from concern university students could have gone home for the winter holidays if it is held later.
EU leaders have gathered several times to discuss new deadlines for Brexit, whose initial March 29 date has been pushed back three times.U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says “we’re going out there to win” in the early election that Britain is now likely to hold in December. The opposition party leader told fellow lawmakers Tuesday that he’ll back an early election for Britain now that the prospect of crashing out of the European Union without a deal has been taken off the table.He spoke only hours before British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to once again ask lawmakers to approve an early election, saying voters must have the chance to break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament.
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