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Carol porsche unveiling its first ever electric car in a battle to steal the market that tesla built. We look at the taycan turbo. Jason our big story of the week, brexit. Boris johnsons do or die strategy to exit the eu was derailed and his plan for a general election was rejected. Carol what a week. Having bet everything on getting britain out of the European Union by october 31, now he really cant back down. Lets bring in our editor from london on whats next for the u. K. Prime minister and if he will need to delay brexit. What a week it was for Boris Johnson. How weakened is he as leader of the u. K. . Boris johnson is completely trapped. He has been british Prime Minister only six weeks and has already discovered that there is not a great deal that he can do. He is in charge of a government that has no majority at all in the house of commons, because not least, he decided to fire 21 members of his own party. He refused to follow his instructions. It is an extremely difficult situa
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Other parts of the world. It is 7 00am in the morning in singapore and midnight here in london, where the british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has suffered two major setbacks for his brexit strategy. First, a Cross Party Group of mps was successful in getting a bill passed to prevent a no deal brexit. The bill potentially forces mrjohnson to do something that he has repeatedly ruled out, namely asking the eu for yet another brexit delay unless a deal is secured. The Prime Ministers response was to call for a general election on 15 october, but he failed to get sufficient support from mps. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports on the days events. Are we through the Looking Glass now . The Prime Minister is demanding a new parliament over there, an election, yet he says he doesnt want one. The other parties say they do, but may yet stand in his way. It wont be settled until the commons closes the door on the possibility that borisjohnson could take us out of the eu next month wi