Brexit on a knife edge as Boris Johnson stakes all on 'Super Saturday' vote

In one of 3-year Brexit drama, Johnson confounded his opponents on Thursday by clinching a new deal with the EU, even though the bloc had promised it would never reopen a treaty it agreed last year

Britain’s exit from the EU hung on a knife-edge on Friday as British PM Boris Johnson scrambled to persuade doubters to rally behind his last-minute EU divorce deal in an extraordinary vote in Parliament. In one of the three-year Brexit drama, Johnson confounded his opponents on Thursday by clinching a new deal with the EU, even though the bloc had promised it would never reopen a treaty it agreed last year. Yet Johnson must now ratify the deal in the British parliament. Where he has no majority and opponents are plotting maximum political damage ahead of an imminent election.

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