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Inside Europe: A blow for Boris Johnson's election plans

Keith Walker
September 6, 2019

Boris Johnson has called for a snap election but it's failed in the House of Commons. It needed two-thirds of MPs to support it but it didn't get that after Labour party MPs abstained. Keith Walker speaks with Patrick Christys — a journalist and political commentator based in London at Love Sport Radio — about what this means and how British politics has got to this crisis point.

https://p.dw.com/p/3P9cJ