Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing,

sponsored by the Boeing Company. And I'm Anna Palmer. Here's the world as we know it. The United Kingdom's

government is in chaos. Boris Johnson, the prime minister that President Donald Trump has backed,

lost control of parliament. Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, perhaps Trump's strongest ally

on the world stage, faces an election this month. And the Trump administration is trying to divert

money from military projects to build a wall on the southern border, infuriating the legislative

leaders who he needs to notch a trade deal and usurping the authority of a Congress

that refused to give him money to begin with. The president's own party is befuddled where he

stands on critical issues like gun control, saying publicly that if the president said what he

supported, Congress might be able to act. Let's dive in. PoliticoEU says this from London.

Boris Johnson is still in power, but he has lost control.

Facing a hostile parliament with a slim majority, Johnson lost a vote with conservatives

joining the opposition party to delay the first stage of legislation that would delay Brexit

again from its current date of October 31st.

Here's a big picture to keep an eye on.

Ryan Heath writes that Johnson could become the shortest serving tenant of number 10

Downing Street since the office was created in 1721 if no deal with the European Union is in sight.

President Trump has thrown his political lot in with no other leaders like he has with Boris Johnson

in Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu. Both will face elections in the next month or so, and both have a decent

chance of being booted out of office or significantly weakened. The New York Times headline

from Jerusalem this morning is the aura of indispensability has faded. The AP is reporting that Iran is ratcheting

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