Boris Johnson warns Brexit rebels: I'll call October general election

Britain is heading for its third general election in less than five years after Boris Johnson said yesterday that he would go to the polls rather than accept another Brexit delay.  

The prime minister said that he did not want to send voters back to the ballot box but told MPs that he would seek an election on October 14 if they moved to block ano-deal exittoday.

In a speech in Downing Street he said that such a move by MPs would “chop the legs out from under the UK” and make any further negotiation impossible. “I want everybody to know – there are no circumstances in which I will ask Brussels to delay,” he said. “We are leaving on 31 October,no ifs…