British MPs open rare Saturday session for Brexit vote

Britain's parliament sat on a Saturday for the first time in 37 years to debate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal to leave the European Union.

A grab from a handout video made available by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit shows British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivering a speech to MPs at the House of Commons in London, Britain, October 19, 2019. [Photo: IC/EPA]

MPs will decide on the divorce deal struck with EU leaders on Thursday, in a knife-edge vote that could see Britain out of the bloc on October 31. Parliament's last Saturday session was in 1982.