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UK Election: Voters Decide The Fate Of Brexit — Again

Residents arrive to vote at a polling station in Dobcross, northwest England, as Britain holds a general election on December 12, 2019. (Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)
Residents arrive to vote at a polling station in Dobcross, northwest England, as Britain holds a general election on December 12, 2019. (Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)

Thursday is election day in the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the early election hoping the results will boost his Conservative Party and give him enough support to get his Brexit deal passed.

Britain is due to leave the European Union on January 31, 2020. Host Lisa Mullins gets the latest with NPR’s London correspondent Frank Langfitt (@franklangfitt).

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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