Under-pressure UK PM Boris Johnson has today lost his parliamentary majority after Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.
It comes at a critical time for the ruling Tories, who could face an emergency motion to take a no-deal Brexit off the table on Wednesday.
Four years ago, Johnson’s Conservative Party had a working majority of 12 seats. After the Brexit referendum, new PM Theresa May went back to the country.
Her party remained the biggest in parliament but lost its majority and had to form a government by going into a supply and confidence agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party. But that majority has been chipped away at by defections and lost by-elections.
