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LONDON — British lawmakerson Tuesday rose up against PrimeMinister Boris Johnson, movingto prevent him from taking thecountry out of the European Un-ion without a formal agreement.The epic showdown pushed Brit-ain to the verge of a new election.
After losing his first-ever voteas prime minister, Mr. Johnsonstood up in Parliament and said heintended to present a formal re-quest for a snap general electionto lawmakers, who would have toapprove it.
A little over a month ago, Mr.Johnson, a brash, blustery poli-tician often compared to Presi-dent Trump, swept into office witha vow to finally wrest Britain fromthe European Union by whatevermeans necessary, even if it meanta disorderly, no-deal departure.
Now, Parliament has pulled therug out from under him, and Mr.Johnson is at risk of falling into thesame Brexit quagmire thatdragged down his predecessor asprime minister, Theresa May.
The lawmakers forced his handby voting by 328 to 301 to take con-trol of Parliament away from thegovernment and vote on legisla-tion as soon as Wednesday thatwould block the prime ministerfrom making good on his threat ofa no-deal Brexit.
That prompted an angry re-sponse from the prime minister.
“I don’t want an election, thepublic don’t want an election, butif the House votes for this bill to-morrow, the public will have tochoose who goes to Brussels onOct. 17 to sort this out and take thiscountry forward,” Mr. Johnsonsaid, referring to the next Euro-pean Union summit.
Tuesday was a critical momentin Britain’s tortured, three-yeareffort to extract itself from the Eu-ropean Union. The saga has divid-ed Britons, torn apart the rulingConservative Party and promptedcomplaints that Mr. Johnson hastrampled the conventions of thecountry’s unwritten constitution.
A majority of lawmakers are de-termined to block a withdrawalfrom the European Union withouta deal, which they believe wouldbe disastrous for the country’seconomy. Tuesday’s vote sug-gested they have the numbers tosucceed.
Mr. Johnson’s aides had madeclear that, in the event of a defeaton Tuesday, he would seek a gen-eral election on Oct. 14 — just a lit-tle over two weeks before theBrexit deadline of Oct. 31.
In his rebuttal to Mr. Johnson’scall for elections, the oppositionleader, Jeremy Corbyn, said hewould agree to an election only af-ter Parliament passed legislationbarring a no-deal Brexit. TheHouse of Commons is expected toapprove the measure on Wednes-day.
Tuesday’s vote marked a mo-ment when Mr. Johnson’s hardball
LAWMAKERS FOILBRITAIN’S LEADER WITH BREXIT VOTE
A SETBACK FOR JOHNSON
Showdown in ParliamentHas U.K. on Verge of
a New Election
By STEPHEN CASTLE
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WASHINGTON — Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence departed his ho-tel overlooking stunning vistas ofthe Atlantic Ocean just before8:30 a.m. Tuesday for his officialvisit with Michael D. Higgins, thepresident of Ireland. It would bequite some time before he gotthere.
There was the hourlong motor-cade to the airport in Shannon,where he arrived at 9:30 a.m.Then the flight to Dublin, whereAir Force Two landed at 10:29a.m., and finally a short drive toAras an Uachtarain, the presiden-tial residence, and his meet-and-greet with Mr. Higgins, whichstarted at 11:11 a.m.
The lengthy commute was nec-essary because of Mr. Pence’schoice of hotel: Rather thanspending Monday night in Dublin,the vice president stayed 181 milesaway by car on the other side ofIreland — at the Trump Interna-tional Golf Links & Hotel in Doon-beg. The person who suggested hestay there was the hotel’s ownerhimself, President Trump.
“I don’t think it was a request,
like a command,” Marc Short, Mr.Pence’s chief of staff, told report-ers traveling with the vice presi-dent. “I think that it was a sugges-tion.”
And so Mr. Pence became partof a well-established trend amongprominent Republicans, whosince Mr. Trump rose to lead hisparty have become regularcustomers at his establishments.In total, nearly $20 million hasbeen spent at the Trump familyhotels since 2015 by variousmostly Republican politicalgroups, including Mr. Trump’sown political committees, accord-ing to a tally by the Center for Re-sponsive Politics.
Mr. Pence’s stay at the Trumphotel — which bills itself as “a newgeneration of style and service” —may have been the highest-profileexample of a member of Mr.
Pence ChoosesA Trump HotelOver Proximity
Irish Trip Continues aPattern by Officials
By MAGGIE HABERMANand ERIC LIPTON
Vice President Mike Pence hasfamily ties in Doonbeg, Ireland.
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LONDON — They have beennamed the Conservative rebels, agroup of renegade lawmakerswilling to risk their careers to defytheir newly chosen leader, PrimeMinister Boris Johnson, and hob-ble his leadership over their clash-ing views on Brexit.
But behind all the talk of revolu-
tionary ardor and mutinous tac-tics was an unlikely cadre of insur-rectionists — a band of starchygrandees of Tory politics that in-cludes Winston Churchill’s grand-son and a 45-year party veteranand ex-chancellor so colorlessthat he earned the nickname“Spreadsheet Phil.” Running thegovernment only weeks ago, theyflouted it on Tuesday from the
sidelines.They believe that Mr. Johnson,
in his zeal for pulling Britain out ofthe European Union without adeal, is risking severe damage tothe British economy. But they alsobelieve he is tarnishing the Con-servatives, setting fire to their vi-sion of a big-tent party with priori-ties beyond Brexit.
In setting aside their usual cau-
tion and ripping the heart out ofMr. Johnson’s Brexit plans, theyoffered perhaps the clearest indi-cation yet that the party, squab-bling for decades over Europe, isnow enmeshed in a civil war. Mr.Johnson’s team almost immedi-ately kicked the rebels — 21 law-makers, most of them ex-govern-ment ministers — out of the party
In E.U. Divorce, Conservative Party Stalwarts Take a Rebel TurnBy BENJAMIN MUELLER
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ISIS Families Stranded in Syria
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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
NASSAU, Bahamas — Desper-ate residents stranded on rooftopsamid swirling currents. Rescue ef-forts stalled by flooded vehiclesand roads turned to rivers. Com-munications in ruins and basic in-frastructure — including shelters,hospitals and public buildings —underwater.
And all around, vicious windsand crashing waves brought on byHurricane Dorian, one of the mostpowerful storms recorded in theAtlantic, whipped the low-lying is-lands of Abaco and Grand Baha-ma in the northwestern Bahamasfor a second day on Tuesday.
The true extent of Dorian’s toll
was only beginning to emerge asthe storm began to pull away.
Entire neighborhoods were re-duced to unrecognizable fields ofrubble, houses were crushed intosplinters and boats were tossedinto heaps like toys, video from ahelicopter flyover showed. About60 percent of Grand Bahama wasunderwater, the satellite companyIceye said Monday. That includesthe airport. All around, massivewaves curled toward the island,delivering new blows.
“It’s not just the power and fe-rocity of the storm, it’s also thelength of time it spent over Abacoand Grand Bahama,” said MarvinDames, the minister of nationalsecurity for the Bahamas. “That’sa disastrous outcome.”
Seven people have died in Aba-co, Prime Minister Hubert Minnissaid at an evening news confer-ence, although the toll was ex-pected to climb. Children wereamong those killed, Mr. Dameshad said earlier.
Hurricane Dorian first madelandfall in the Bahamas as a Cate-gory 5 storm on Sunday, but thenit lingered, pummeling Grand Ba-hama and Abaco Islands, blockingeven a basic accounting of thenumber of victims and the de-struction.
‘Dystopian Mess’ as Storm Cripples the BahamasThis article is by Rachel Knowles,
Frances Robles and ElisabethMalkin.
Rescue efforts on Tuesday in the Bahamas. With winds of 185 m.p.h., Hurricane Dorian is one of the strongest storms to strike land.RAMON ESPINOSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Rescuers Struggling —Water Engulfs 60%
of a Main Island
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —As the outer bands of HurricaneDorian began brushing the Flor-ida coast on Tuesday, a womanraced to pick up her mother-in-lawat a retirement community, wherethe elevator was about to be shutdown. The staff of a nursing homepacked up more than 200 resi-dents as well as the supplies theymight need: cases of water, airmattresses and board games. Atanother center, residents wereevacuated in specialty ambu-lances, rented motor coaches andprivate vehicles.
Across the state, a scramblewas underway to move older Flo-ridians to safer ground as a weak-ened but still dangerous Hurri-cane Dorian, once a Category 5storm but now a vast Category 2,threatened the state’s Atlanticcoast.
The last major storm to hit thestate was foremost in officials’minds. When Hurricane Irmacame ashore two years ago, a doz-en patients died after a nursinghome in Hollywood, Fla., lost itsair-conditioning. The tragedyprompted new regulations and an
Racing to MoveSeniors at RiskTo Dry Ground
This article is by Patricia Mazzei,Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs andRichard Fausset.
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Walmart stepped forcefully intothe national gun debate on Tues-day, saying it would stop sellingammunition that can be used inmilitary-style assault rifles, woulddiscourage its customers fromopenly carrying guns in its storesand would call on Congress to in-crease background checks andconsider a new assault rifle ban.
One month ago, a gunmankilled 22 people at a Walmart storein El Paso, a massacre that putpressure on the company to re-spond to the wave of mass shoot-ings across the country. It is thenation’s biggest retailer, and alarge seller of firearms and am-munition.
Walmart said it made the an-nouncement after weeks of dis-cussion and research about how
best to respond. The decision is inline with public opinion polls thatfavor more gun controls, and ad-vocates, gun violence victims andothers have increasingly calledfor action.
The company said that after“selling through our current in-ventory commitments,” whichcould take several weeks, it wouldstop selling certain short-barrelrifle ammunition and all handgunammunition.
The retailer, whose sheer reachhas reshaped communities na-tionwide, largely avoids publiclywading into politics. That madeWalmart’s statement on Tuesdayeven more notable. It called onleaders in Washington to enactstronger background checks to
Walmart Enters Gun Debate,Curtailing Ammunition Sales
By MICHAEL CORKERY
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A closely watched index signaled acontraction in U.S. factory activity forthe first time since 2016. PAGE B1
Trade War Blamed for Slump
Today, partly sunny, humid, strongafternoon thunderstorms, high 86.Tonight, clouds breaking, low 65. To-morrow, some sunshine, less humid,high 75. Weather map is on Page C8.
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