• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during the debate on the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill in the House of Commons in London Tuesday. After months of stalemate in Parliament, Britain appeared on course Tuesday for an early general election that could break the country's political deadlock over Brexit. | U.K. PARLIAMENT / JESSICA TAYLOR / VIA AP
    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during the debate on the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill in the House of Commons in London Tuesday. After months of stalemate in Parliament, Britain appeared on course Tuesday for an early general election that could break the country's political deadlock over Brexit. | U.K. PARLIAMENT / JESSICA TAYLOR / VIA AP

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LONDON – Britain on Tuesday was heading toward its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won preliminary approval from Parliament for an early ballot aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock.

As the European Union granted a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March 29, the United Kingdom, its Parliament and its electorate remain divided on how, or indeed whether, to go ahead with Brexit.

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