Explainer: As PM Johnson pushes ahead with Brexit, what happens now in parliament?


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Oct 2019

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to head for the House of Commons as parliament discusses Brexit, sitting on a Saturday for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War, in London, Britain, October 19, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try to drive the legislation needed to take Britain out of the European Union through parliament in the next 9 days, or else break his "do or die" pledge to leave on Oct. 31.

Johnson was forced on Monday to abandon his attempt to have a straight 'yes or no' vote on his Brexit deal, and is instead trying to speed through the legislation for Britain to leave the EU through the lower and upper houses of parliament.

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