UK goes to polls to try and sort out Brexit

After more than three years of political bickering and wrangling over Brexit that have deeply divided the country, the United Kingdom has arrived at what is once again being called a defining moment.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared it was time to unite the country and get Brexit done after he won a vote in the House of Commons to call an early general election by a convincing vote of 438 to 20.

To be held on Dec 12, two and a half years ahead of the next scheduled election in 2022, it will be the first December election in the country for nearly 100 years, and it is being taken as another sign heralding that the Brexit impasse is about to be broken.