The British parliamentarian became famous for his eloquence, his loud ties and allowing Remain-leading politicians to table emergency debates about Brexit. Now he has left, will British politics ever be the same again?
Labour MP and Deputy Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been elected by MPs as the new Commons speaker.
With just 10 days to go until the UK is due to leave the EU on October 31, UK PM Johnson's government planned to ask for a "straight up-and-down vote" on the EU divorce agreement.
Landing back home, Johnson will face angry British MPs who return to Westminster following a momentous Supreme Court ruling that the PM's decision to suspend parliament was unlawful.
The British prime minister's move to suspend parliament is profoundly undemocratic but is being treated with kid gloves.
Anti-Brexit protesters gathered outside Britain's parliament chanting slogans condemning Prime Minister Boris Johnson after his request to suspend parliament was approved by the Queen.
Nazanin Zahgari-Ratcliffe and her husband recently ended their hunger strike to protest her imprisonment for espionage in Iran.
British PM Theresa May is set to ask the EU for a delay of at least several months to Brexit after the speaker of the House of Commons ruled that she can't keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same divorce deal that they have already rejected twice.
A ballot will be held between 1800GMT and 2000GMT on Wednesday in a room at the House of Commons and an announcement made as soon as possible afterwards.
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