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British MPs are waiting for the results of the vote Tuesday night, September 3 in London. PRU / AFP

British MPs inflicted a stinging defeat on Boris Johnson. With the help of conservative rebels, the opposition has seized the parliamentary agenda and will try to pass Wednesday, September 4 a law to prevent a Brexit without agreement on October 31. The prime minister immediately announced his intention to push for early elections.

With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix

The day was disastrous Tuesday for the Prime Minister and his advisers, who saw their strategy defeated by MPs despite threats and pressure. " It's not a good start Boris! " [" It starts badly ! Triumphantly shouted a member of the opposition just after the result of the vote on Tuesday night , which allows the House of Commons to regain control of the parliamentary agenda.

A vote obtained with the support of 21 conservative rebels who, as a result of retaliation, were immediately excluded from the party although there are among them eminent persons like Philip Hammond, there are still a few weeks Minister of Finance, the patriarch of Parliament Ken Clarke and also Sir Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill.

MPs voted on this evening's #emergencydebate motion. https://t.co/WXsWlJlNbo

UK House of Commons (@HouseofCommons) September 3, 2019

Opposition parties with the help of 21 conservatives should try on Wednesday to pass a law obliging Boris Johnson to ask the bloc to delay again the Brexit until January 31 if he has not concluded a new agreement with Brussels by 19 October.

Furious, the Prime Minister immediately warned that it was out of the question for him to plead for a new extension and that, even if he did not wish it, he would try to trigger an advance poll . But it requires the approval of two-thirds of Parliament, which is far from being won.

Labor to maneuver

The Labor Party could put a spoke in the wheels. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated that he was ready to face his conservative opponent in early elections, but first that the law preventing a Brexit without agreement that MPs want to pass between today and next Monday be voted to avoid a chaotic exit from the EU.

Labor certainly do not trust Boris Johnson and fear that he will announce elections, but that he is actually setting a trap for the opposition by scheduling a poll (apparently with the October 15 date in mind). BBC) and then decides to postpone it after October 31, and therefore after a Brexit without agreement.

If Labor does not vote for early elections, Boris Johnson finds himself in an incredibly complicated situation having suspended the Parliament and now without a majority after the spectacular defection of one of his deputies on Tuesday.