U.K. lawmakers had supported his Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Tuesday evening, but almost immediately voted against the timetable.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has delayed a decision on his Brexit legislation after U.K. lawmakers rejected his plan to rush it through the House of Commons in three days.
It has significantly reduced the chances that the world's fifth-largest economy will leave the EU on October 31, as planned — something the prime minister had vowed to deliver "do or die, come what may." "By insisting that this bill had to be got through the House of Commons in three days, rather than what one would expect a period of several weeks, the prime minister was giving the impression that he was trying to bully and bulldoze people into accepting something without proper scrutiny," Grieve said.
"And it was never, in my view, going to be possible to do that … So, in one way, I think he has created a completely artificial crisis," he added.
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