LONDON • Boris Johnson has begun with defeat.
Legislators voted on Tuesday to seize control of Parliament, alarmed by the Prime Minister's insistence that he will take Britain out of the European Union on Oct 31, even if no deal with the bloc has been reached. On Wednesday, opposition legislators and rebels from Mr Johnson's own party passed a law mandating the Prime Minister to ask for an extension to the deadline if he still has no deal.
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