The European Union has agreed to delay Brexit until next year
After a very short meeting of diplomats in Brussels, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Twitter that the EU's 27 other countries will accept "the UK's request for a Brexit flextension until 31 January, 2020."
Johnson now plans to seek an early general election with the goal of getting a Parliament that would back his Brexit plan, but he may not have enough support. Lawmakers were meeting later Monday in the House of Commons on Johnson's early election call. Speaking anonymously because details of the decision have yet to be made public, one diplomat added that the Brexit withdrawal agreement can't be renegotiated during the extension period.
It's the second time the Brexit deadline has been changed since British voters in 2016 referendum decided to leave the bloc. The ruling Conservatives desperately want a new election to bolster their numbers in Parliament. They face resistance from the main opposition Labour Party, however, which fears it could lose scores of seats in the election and is wary about having the country unwittingly tricked into crashing out of the EU without a deal.
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