London: Britain faced another week of grinding political gridlock after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was denied a chance Monday to hold a vote by lawmakers on his Brexit divorce bill. But Johnson accompanied the unsigned letter to the EU late Saturday with a second note saying that he personally opposed delaying Brexit. Germany's economy minister suggested it could be a few days before the EU decided to respond to the Brexit delay request. ___Associated Press writers Geir Moulson in Berlin, Lorne Cook in Brussels and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this story. ___Follow AP's full coverage of Brexit and British politics at https://www.apnews.com/BrexitThis story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.

Source: Mint October 21, 2019 19:18 UTC