(Ghoussoub is a journalist @ CBC News.)

The Beeb and The Guardian at the end of the day:

wow, imagine that, CNN did a Live News page on topic today with video clips, lists of the rebels, tweets, splainers etc....:

Boris Johnson dealt blow as Brexit rebels vote to seize control

By Bianca Britton and Ivana Kottasová, CNN

Updated 8:38 PM ET, Tue September 3, 2019

What we covered here

• Rebels take control: UK lawmakers voted 328 to 321 to seize control of the parliamentary agenda in an attempt to block a no-deal Brexit, in a blow to Boris Johnson.
• The plan: Tomorrow, a "rebel alliance" of opposition and Conservative MPs will try to pass a bill to prevent the Prime Minister from taking the UK out of the EU on without a deal, as he has pledged to do if he can't strike a new deal by October 31.
• Election threat: The PM warned he would seek early elections if MPs ruled out a no-deal Brexit, but the opposition said it wouldn't vote for new elections unless no-deal was ruled out.
• PM loses majority: The government entered Tuesday night with a razor-thin parliamentary majority of 1. But after a Conservative MP dramatically defected before the vote -- and Johnson subsequently sacked 21 others who voted with the rebels -- that majority is now gone.

Former Labour MP Luciana Berger joins the Liberal Democrats

Remain campaigner says party is only one that is unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit

By Kate Proctor @ TheGuardian.com, Sept. 5

The former Labour politician Luciana Berger has joined the Liberal Democrats, becoming the second MP to join the party in a week.

The MP for Liverpool Wavertree and remain campaigner said the party is the only one that has proven to be “unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit”.

In February she quit Labour over the party’s handling of antisemitism cases and its approach to Brexit alongside six other MPs to form fledging political grouping Change UK. The party split in the summer and she since been sitting as an independent.

Berger said: “This is a moment of national crisis. The Liberal Democrats are unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit and are committed to securing Britain’s future as a tolerant, open and inclusive society.

“I am joining Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrats today, in the national interest, to offer a vital, positive alternative to Johnson and Corbyn and help build a future that our country deserves.” [....]

whole shebang has me recalling this 2017 news thread, AMERICA'S NEW, COMBUSTIBLE FOUR-PARTY SYSTEM in particular this comment by Wolraich:

Fwiw, this 4-way schism is bigger than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, bigger than the Hamptons and Appalachia, bigger than our whole screwed up, self-obsessed country. A number European countries literally have four (or more) parties, and the left-wing and right-wing coalitions threaten to eclipse the centrists. It's not some temporary aberration that will subside in a couple years. These divisions have been growing across the Western world for decades and show no signs of abating.

• reply

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 11:05pm

Strikes me that nothing is new here, as inflammatory advocacy and polemics in "journalism" is long the tradition of our motherland, they never bothered to even try for objectivity:

The readers are supposed to be the judges. How is that working out for them with the new information systems that are available?