Brexit day of reckoning: UK parliament set for knife-edge vote on #Brexit deal

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to put his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday were plunged into chaos by moves by his opponents to derail the legislation.

More than three years since the United Kingdom voted 52-48 to leave the European project, Johnson was hoping to win parliament’s approval for the divorce treaty he struck in Brussels on Thursday.

But his opponents have laid a parliamentary booby trap that could frustrate his plans, forcing him to send members of parliament home without voting on his deal on Saturday.

Former Conservative lawmaker Oliver Letwin, expelled from the party by Johnson, has proposed that the decision on whether to back a deal be deferred until all the legislation needed to implement it has been passed through parliament.

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