Britain Set for December 12 Election to Break the Brexit Deadlock

Britain Set for December 12 Election to Break the Brexit Deadlock
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen on Downing Street in London, Britain on Oct. 29, 2019. Toby Melville/Reuters
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LONDON—Britain will hold its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval from parliament on Oct. 29 for an early ballot aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock.

As the European Union granted a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March 29, the United Kingdom, its parliament and its electorate remain divided on how, or indeed whether, to go ahead with Brexit.