LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson is looking for new ways to bring about a national election after rebellious British lawmakers rejected his call to trigger a snap poll.

The members of Parliament also have moved to block Johnson's plan to leave the European Union next month without a divorce deal. The twin defeats — two in a day — are evidence that the embattled leader's plans to lead the U.K. out of the EU are in crisis.

Johnson says new elections are the only way out of Britain's Brexit impasse, but events have spiraled out of his control. He leads a government with no majority in Parliament and may not be able to secure an election that could change that fact.

Parliament turned down his motion and the prime minister indicated he would try again, saying an election was the only way forward for the country and urging opposition lawmakers to "reflect overnight and in the course of the next few days."