Boris Johnson will try for a fourth time to secure an early general election, after MPs rejected his plan. The PM will now ask MPs to approve a 12 December election through a one-page bill - which needs the support of fewer MPs than his last attempt. But No 10 sources say they would accept an election on 11 December to get opposition parties on-board. Mr Johnson said the "paralysis" could not go on, but Labour said a no-deal Brexit had to be taken off the table. This comes after EU leaders accepted the UK's request to extend the Brexit deadline to 31 January - but the UK can leave earlier if a deal is agreed by Parliament. The Commons backed the government's election motion by 299 to 70 on Monday - but it was well short of the two-thirds of all 650 MPs whose support is needed to call an election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. All Conservative MPs backed the motion, but the vast majority of MPs from Labour - the largest opposition party - abstained, along with the Scottish National Party and Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland. All but one MP from the Liberal Democrats voted against it. The government has now said it will abandon its attempt to pass its Brexit deal bill, for the time being. Instead, it has published its Early Parliamentary General Election Bill, which allows for an election to take place on 12 December. Former Chancellor Philip Hammond - who was expelled from the Conservative Party at Westminster after voting against a no-deal Brexit - said the idea of using "precious time" to hold an election, rather than passing the government's Brexit bill, "frankly appals me". But Home Office Minister Brandon Lewis said: "We have to have an election to deliver a Parliament that can get Brexit through." Labour's shadow cabinet are meeting to discuss their position on the early election bill.