WORLD NEWS:- UK to hold election on December 12 after MPs vote

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Britain is set to hold an early election on December 12, after a bill authorising the vote was passed by the House of Commons. Lawmakers voted 438-20 in favour of the bill to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson the early election he craves.

It will become law once it is approved by the unelected House of Lords, which does not have the power to overrule the elected Commons.

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Johnson hopes the election will give his Conservative Party a majority so he can pass his Brexit deal and take Britain out of the European Union.But after three years of inconclusive political wrangling over Brexit, voters are weary and the results of an election hard to predict.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured an election before Christmas. Photo / Stuff

Johnson pushed for a December 12 election in hopes of breaking the parliamentary stalemate that blocked his plan to take Britain out of the European Union this month. This week the EU granted Britain a three-month Brexit extension until January 31.

Johnson – who has had to abandon his vow to lead Britain out of the EU on October 31 “do or die” – accused his opponents of wanting to prolong the Brexit process “until the 12th of never.”

He told lawmakers in Parliament on Tuesday there was no choice but “to go to the country to break free from this impasse.”

“There is only one way to get Brexit done in the face of this unrelenting parliamentary obstructionism, this endless, willful, fingers crossed, ‘not me guv’ refusal to deliver on the mandate of the people – and that is to refresh this Parliament and give the people a choice,” Johnson said.

For weeks, opposition parties have defeated Johnson’s attempts to trigger an election. But now that Brexit has been delayed, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his opposition party would vote in favour of an early election because the prospect that Britain could crash out of the EU without a divorce deal had been taken off the table.

– More to come

Source: Stuff

Featured Image:- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo / Euronews / Via google image

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