Boris Johnson's Brexit Plans Hit Turbulence After Conservative Defection

Boris Johnson's path to his self-imposed Brexit deadline just keeps getting rockier.

On Tuesday, less than two months from the date he set for the U.K.'s divorce from the European Union — with or without a deal on the terms of the breakup — the British prime minister suffered another significant blow to his fraying support in Parliament: Phillip Lee, a fellow Tory, defected from Johnson's Conservative Party in a dramatic scene in the House of Commons.