LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's House of Lords on Wednesday adopted a bill aimed at preventing the UK from leaving the European Union without an agreement, a further blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The law, which requires Johnson to ask the European Union to postpone Brexit, scheduled for October 31 for three months, comes into force on Monday if ratified by Queen Elizabeth II.
This development comes at a time when the leaders of the British opposition parties agreed to vote against a memorandum that the Prime Minister intends to submit to the House of Commons next Monday, calling for early elections in the middle of next month.
The opposition has said it will not allow early elections to be held until the EU deadline is extended beyond October 31.
For his part, Johnson described the rejection of opposition parties call for early elections "paradoxical and political error," stressing that he is able to get a new agreement from Brussels next month using his persuasive capabilities.
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The writer Antoine Malo in an article published in the French Journal de Dimanche to what he described as the slap received by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the exit of his country from the European Union.
He says Johnson lost his majority in parliament, expelled 21 "rebel" lawmakers, failed to force early elections and had to accept a text calling for a delay in Britain's withdrawal from the European Union within a few days.
The writer adds that this political crisis in Britain has redistributed the papers of the withdrawal of the country from the European Union and the possible dates to do so, and that Johnson suffered a series of setbacks in his country's parliament, adding that the possibility of a rapid withdrawal of Britain is out of reach.