19 October 2019

Saturday 19 October

2019-10-19

Events

 * UK MPs are called to sit for a special parliamentary session, less than two weeks before Britain’s scheduled departure from the EU. Parliament has sat only four times on Saturdays in the past 80 years, including the day before the outbreak of the second world war, the Suez crisis in 1956 and for the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.
 * Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators march once again to Parliament Square to demand a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal.
 * MPs voted by 322 to 306 to withhold approval of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal. The PM was therefore obliged to write to Brussels by 11.00 pm to request an extension until 31 January 2020, in order to comply with the law under the terms of the Benn act.