Boris Johnson loses majority after lawmaker defects to Liberal Democrats

Downing Street has indicated that Johnson is prepared to go for a motion for a general election around October 14 in retaliation

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday lost his already wafer-thin working majority of one in Parliament as one of the Conservative Party MPs defected to the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party over an ongoing showdown over his strategy for the country's impending exit from the European Union (EU).
 
Philip Lee defected just minutes before Johnson took to the despatch box at the House of Commons for his first parliamentary confrontation with MPs after a long summer recess. The MP for Bracknell conspicuously took his seat on the Opposition benches as Johnson began addressing the Commons.
 
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