5 Sep 2019

Brexit: Boris Johnson's bid for early UK election rejected

From Lately, 10:20 pm on 5 September 2019

The UK's Parliament voted to approve a bill to block a no-deal Brexit happening this October. 

Then the UK's Prime Minister,Boris Johnson, called a snap election in response, but Opposition MPs mobilized quickly and convinced 21 members of Johnson's own Conservative Party to join them in seizing control of the parliamentary agenda so they could pass a bill blocking a no-deal Brexit. 

Those Conservative rebels have now been expelled from the party for their disloyalty, but that also means Johnson no longer has a majority in Parliament.

Professor of Law and Human Rights from University of Bristol, Gavin Phillipson, speaks with Karyn about what it all means.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Parliament he wanted an election on 15 October.

Photo: AFP / PRU