Untangling Brexit: will the UK have a winter election?

Boris Johnson lost a third parliamentary vote but will table a new election bill backed by the Lib Dems. What happened on Monday? Boris Johnson lost a third parliamentary vote intended to trigger a December general election and accused the current House of Commons of being “incapable” of delivering Brexit. Johnson needed a two-thirds majority of all MPs – 434 votes – under the 2011 Fixed-term Parliament Act. The result was 299 votes for and 70 against after Labour abstain