More than once it looked like the United Kingdom and European Union agreed on a new Brexit deal, and the British Prime Ministers Theresa May and afterwards Boris Johnson announcing that they had "a great new deal".
At one point Jean-Claude
Juncker, the President of the EU Commission, also described the deal as a
"fair and balanced agreement" that is "testament to our commitment to
find solutions."
However,
the many proposals and worked out deals did not get the approval of the UK Parliament to pass into
law.
Johnson's predecessor Theresa
May, was voted down three times by the House of Commons, forcing the UK
to seek an extension to the original Brexit deadline of March 31 this
year. May's deal was criticized heavily on all sides of the political
spectrum, with some arguing it left the UK too closely aligned with the
EU, and others saying that it failed to protect workers' rights and
would damage the economy.
This time the prime minister Boris Johnson said he would abandon his Brexit bill and call for a
general election if MPs voted down the government’s three-day timetable.
Johnson told parliament if the programme was rejected and the EU
confirmed a delay to the 31 October exit, he would instead push for a
general election.
Boris Johnson paused his attempt to get his deal through parliament after MPs refused to allow him to fast-track it. Despite MPs having decided to pass the legislation that would implement the deal to the next parliamentary stage, Johnson took it off the agenda because they refused to agree to accede to his demand for a three-day timetable.
For the so maniest time it looks like the English receive another delay from the European Union. The European council’s president, Donald Tusk, said he would recommend
the extension be signed off and it was suggested that 31 January 2020
would be set as the new deadline, though it would be superseded if there
was an earlier ratification of Brexit by MPs.
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