London (AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he will scramble to find a new compromise for divorce from the European Union, after a series of scathing dislikes in the House of Commons that thwart his strategy of a Brexit at all costs.

The conservative leader has said he will "strive for an agreement" by a European summit on 17 and 18 October in Brussels, just after deputies refused early Tuesday the organization of parliamentary elections anticipated.

Boris Johnson convened his cabinet meeting in the morning to decide what to do after a trying week in parliament, where he suffered camouflage on camouflage and lost an absolute majority following defections and expulsions of rebel deputies from his Conservative Party.

He was also scheduled to meet Tuesday with Arlene Foster, leader of the Northern Ireland Unionist Party DUP allied to the government, amid rumors of a possible easing of the British position on the fate of the Irish border.

London and Brussels can not agree on how to keep this demarcation open after Brexit. Boris Johnson wants to remove from the withdrawal agreement negotiated by the one he replaced, Theresa May, a provision that would prevent him the United Kingdom to follow an independent commercial policy.

But for the European Union, for lack of alternative credible solution, there is no question of returning to this measure, called "safety net" (or "backstop" in English).

This clause provides that the United Kingdom as a whole remains in a "single customs territory" with the EU if a better solution is not found after a transitional period. It aims to prevent a return to a physical boundary between Northern Ireland, a British province, and the Republic of Ireland, a Member State of the European Union.

"Significant differences remain," Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar said after a meeting in Dublin.

Arlene Foster, who refuses any special status for Northern Ireland, warned on the Sky News television channel that the British province should not be sacrificed in the talks, because it would lead to the "rupture" of the United Kingdom. United.

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Monday's sitting in the House of Commons, whose President John Bercow announced his resignation, was the last one before Boris Johnson's controversial parliamentary suspension of five weeks until October 14, just two weeks before Brexit. .

The codified ceremonial marking this suspension took place in an electric atmosphere, amid the songs and protests acrimonious opposition, whose members waved "Silenced" posters and shouted "Shame on you!" in the direction of their Tories colleagues.

Prior to that, members of parliament had defeated Boris Johnson's proposal to call voters for the second time in five days on October 15.

Before any vote, the opposition wants to make sure that the prospect of a "no deal" and the economic chaos that it makes fear are removed and that the Brexit will be postponed by three months if no agreement is found d here on October 19, as Parliament voted last week.

Against all odds, Boris Johnson has hammered that he will ask for "no further postponement", initially scheduled for March 29 and already postponed twice. Recourse in court, resignation or otherwise, he did not explain how he intended to go about it.

Another disavowal, the lower house also voted on Monday a text binding the government to make public confidential documents on the impact of a Brexit without agreement, which he is suspected to have minimized.

Any further postponement will have to be unanimously approved by the other 27 member states of the European Union.

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