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Can Boris Johnson keep his seat?

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The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

William Booth lays out the factors shaping Britain’s upcoming general election. Ovetta Wiggins on the legal and media battle that won five prison exonerees millions from Maryland. And the House will move forward with drafting articles of impeachment.

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From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Cleveland, some of the Washington Post.

0:26.8

It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.

0:29.4

This is Post reports. I am Martin Powers.

0:35.0

It's Thursday, December 5th.

0:39.2

Today, Britain's upcoming election, the price of wrongful imprisonment,

0:44.2

and the House proceeds with articles of impeachment.

0:52.8

The bridge actually don't like having elections every year.

0:57.2

But the frequency of elections in the last couple of years, David Cameron left.

1:03.1

Theresa May came in. Theresa May then staged an election. They kicked Theresa May out.

1:07.3

Boris comes in and Boris ends parliament. Parliament ends itself.

1:11.1

Then they go to another election. So it would be fair to say they're the

1:14.1

tired of elections as they're tired of Brexit. But they're tough people and they are.

1:18.7

They're going to go for one more.

1:21.5

This is William Booth. He is the Post-Bierichief in London,

1:25.1

where people are headed to the polls next Thursday to vote for their new government.

1:31.7

There's a general election happening now, a snap election, because Boris and the Parliament

1:38.0

couldn't get anywhere with anything because Boris had lost his majority in parliament.

1:44.0

So they had a hung parliament, a stuck parliament.

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