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MPs reject 12 December election plan


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Boris Johnson is to try again for a 12 December general election after MPs rejected the plan.

The prime minister will publish a short piece of legislation seeking the support of the Lib Dems and SNP for an election on that date.

It came after he failed to secure the necessary support of two-thirds of MPs under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act.

“This House can no longer keep this country hostage,” he told MPs, saying Parliament had become “dysfunctional”.

The government comfortably won Monday’s vote by 299 votes to 70 – after the Labour frontbench abstained.

However, it fell well short of getting the support of the 434 MPs it needed.



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