| This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and vault you ahead. WHAT TO KNOW What happened? His honeymoon period has ended. Boris Johnson has been Britain’s prime minister for just over a month, and his focus has been entirely on Brexit — which he says will happen “do or die” on Oct. 31 even if there’s no exit deal in place with the European Union. To keep Parliament from stopping him, he’s decided to shut down the body early to give lawmakers just days to pass legislation stopping an automatic exit. But Parliament fought back: Yesterday, Johnson became one of a handful of PMs to lose their first vote in the House of Commons as 22 members of his own party defied him to allow debate on a bill delaying Brexit. He was defeated 52 percent to 48 percent — the same margin as the Brexit referendum. Today, the House of Commons easily passed a bill to effectively delay Brexit by three months. Why does it matter? Johnson had been working with a majority of exactly one MP, and yesterday he lost it during the debate, when Conservative Phillip Lee publicly crossed the floor of the House of Commons to go sit with the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats. Lee later voted with the opposition and 21 rebel Conservatives to advance today’s vote forcing an extension if a deal cannot be reached by Oct. 19. Johnson immediately called for an early election but was denied by opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who says he wants the option of no deal taken off the table first. | 