Boris Johnson suffered a setback in the British Parliament, which seized control of the Brexit agenda

Boris Johnson suffered a setback in the British Parliament on Tuesday, being defeated in a vote by 328 votes against 301. So, British deputies took parliamentary control of the Brexit agenda with the aim of preventing a departure from the European Union without agreement.

The victory was made possible by the votes of the opposition to the government, added to the twenty-one "rebel tories", who did not want to enable the possibility of an abrupt exit from the European bloc.

Now, lawmakers will vote on a law that forces the premier to request a postponement of Brexit, in case there is no agreement before October 31.

Immediately after the defeat, Johnson announced that he will file a motion to ask for general elections, and the British Treasury announced that it will allocate 2,000 million more pounds to Brexit.

"We are going to present the motion tonight," said the premier.

Johnson said he will not accept the bill and also does not want a new election, but if parliamentarians vote said this bill tomorrow, the public will have to choose who will go to Brussels on October 17.

In addition, he added that if the opposition leader, the Labor Jeremy Corbyn, goes to Brussels, will do what the EU wants, while if he goes, he will get an agreement.

Hours before, his executive had lost his narrow parliamentary majority, of a single seat, with the defection of former minister Phillip Lee, who literally got up and crossed the chamber to sit on the bench of the centrist Liberal-Democratic Party.

Tuesday's episode was possible after the outrage caused by Johnson last week when he announced that he would suspend parliamentary work from mid-September to October 14, which his opponents denounced as a strategy to prevent them from acting.

"This Chamber has a last chance to prevent this government from trampling on the constitutional and democratic rights of the country", Corbyn had said before the vote.

With banners that said "Stop the coup" Y "Defend our parliament", hundreds of people demonstrated until late at night in front of the Palace of Westminster.

"It's quite disgusting what the government is doing. I don't think they are listening to people "said Rachel Power, who was protesting with her two dogs, one covered with a European flag and the other with the British.