U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running out of options, The Guardian reports.
Earlier this week Johnson said he'd "rather be dead than ask for another Brexit delay," despite the fact that Parliament passed a bill to prevent a no-deal departure Friday. "We're in quite extraordinary territory when the prime minister says he is above the law," Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said.
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