United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered ten of the 21 Tory rebels he has tried to reinstate in his group. They had voted against his own government in the dispute over his Brexit course about two months ago and had been banished by Johnson.
The ten MPs include Alistair Burt, Caroline Nokes, Greg Clark, Ed Vaizey, Margot James, Richard Benyon, Stephen Hammond, Steve Brine, Richard Harrington, and the grandson of war-preacher Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames. It was initially unclear how many of them wanted to return to the faction.
Johnson's return offer came just before the vote on a new election. In the evening, the British House of Commons voted in favor of Boris Johnson's move to prefix the next parliamentary election to December 12. Forty-eight MPs supported the Prime Minister's fourth attempt for a new election, and twenty voted against.
Johnson is hoping for a clear majority after the election, to get Parliament's Brexit deal, negotiated with him in Brussels, and bring Britain out of the European Union as soon as possible. His conservative governing party currently has no majority in the lower house.
