Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Jeremy Corbyn has “run away” from the British people for a third time.
He says voters will find the Labour leader’s behaviour “utterly bemusing”.
Johnson confirms the government will now bring forward a bill for an election on 12 December, as a means of working round the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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