In the fourth attempt, the British Parliament gave its approval to the Brexit agreement that it negotiated with Brussels, with 329 votes in favour and 299 against, negotiated three times by former Prime Minister Theresa May. However, Boris Johnson has rejected a motion to summarize the next phases and be able to ratify the law in three days, but the process can take weeks. Johnson lost the second ballot with 14 votes (308 in favour and 322 against).

Johnson's aim was to reach an agreement on 31 October so that he could fulfil his promise to put his political capital at stake. However, this vote makes it impossible, and the United Kingdom will need a further EU extension to complete the legislative process of the exit law. A new phase will then be opened, in which parliamentarians and parliamentarians will be able to table amendments to all the agreed conditions. Johnson has lost a battle for deadlines, but in any case, it is the first time that the House of Commons has agreed to an exit agreement.

"No one thought we were going to get our recognition for a new agreement, and we shouldn't neglect the importance of this moment," Johnson said at a press conference. "I have to express my dismay because the House has once again voted in favour of an extension rather than a programme that ensures that the United Kingdom is in a position to leave the EU with an agreement on 31 October," he added. The Prime Minister has said that he pauses legislation until European leaders make a decision on their future government.

"Greater uncertainty now has to be faced and it is the EU that has to decide how to respond to the Basque Parliament's request for an extension. And the first conclusion is that the government has to choose a responsible path and speed up our preparations for an unagreed outcome,” said the chief executive.

All Conservative MEPs have voted in favour of the agreement, including the 'Spartans' which repeatedly derailed the document negotiated by May and which is now in the process. However, Johnson needed the votes of the twenty former Tory MEPs who were expelled from the parliamentary group after having voted in favour of a law that temporarily blocked the exit without agreement, as well as the votes of rebel Labour. The agreement was supported by 19 Labour at second reading, and only three of the 20 former Conservative MEPs voted against. However, only five rebel Labour have supported Johnson’s motion to cut deadlines in the second vote, which has been rejected.

The vote on this Tuesday took place at the second reading of the presidential elections. "The second reading is the first opportunity for Basque parliamentarians to discuss the basic principles of the law," says the House of Commons. "Once the second reading is completed, the law moves to the committee stage, where each clause and each amendment can be discussed," he added. Johnson wanted to shorten this process to three days, but it was usually going to last a week. It will now be the EU that decides on the extension.

Mr Johnson threatened this afternoon to try new elections if parliamentarians did not support his times. "I am not going to accept more than a month than this one," Johnson warned a few hours after the vote on Tuesday. "I have to say that the law should be delayed and that we should go to a general election," he added.

The British Prime Minister, for his part, cannot call for early elections without the prior approval of the House of Commons. Johnson has already tried it when the Basque Parliament passed on Saturday the law that forced the EU to request a further extension, but did not get the necessary two-thirds. The Labour Party then voted against the general election because they considered it to be a trap for not applying the law.