U.K. voters deciding who they want to resolve stalemate over Brexit in parliamentary election seen as one of the most important since end of World War II.
News headlines today: Dec. 11, 2019LONDON -- U.K. voters were deciding Thursday who they want to resolve the stalemate over Brexit in a parliamentaryVoting was underway across the country in a contest that pits Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who says he will take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31, against opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who promises another referendum on Brexit.
Jill Rutter, program director for the Institute for Government, said one of the things that stood out during the campaign was the shamelessness of the politicians. She cited Johnson's claim that the Conservatives would build 40 hospitals. In fact that number includes many existing facilities that will be renovated.
All of the parties are nervous about the verdict of voters who are more willing to abandon long-held party loyalties after three years of wrangling over Brexit. Photos of lines outside of polling stations suggested a brisk early morning turnout. One of the campaign's defining images was a photo of a sick 4-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor because no beds were available. Johnson's initial failure to even look at the photo in an on-camera interview put the prime minister on the defensive because he was seen as being insensitive to the child's plight.
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