Boris Johnson Fails Again to Call an Election

On the British Parliament’s last night before beginning a month-long suspension, Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed for the 2nd time to earn the two-thirds majority necessary to call a snap general election, The Guardian reports.

The Washington Post notes the vote leaves him “with no obvious means of making good on his vow of a ‘do or die’ exit from the European Union.”

“The latest obstacle to Johnson’s plans came in the form of yet another defeat in the House of Commons, where the once-swaggering prime minister has lost every key vote of his young premiership.”