Boris Johnson will try for a fourth time to secure an early general election, after MPs rejected his plan.
The prime minister will publish a bill proposing a poll on 12 December that would only need a simple majority to succeed – not two-thirds as required in previous attempts.
However, he would still need votes from opposition parties for it to pass.
Mr Johnson said Parliament was “dysfunctional”, but Labour said the prime minister could not be trusted.
The push for an election comes as the government said it would abandon its attempt to pass its Brexit bill, for the time being.
The Commons backed the government’s election motion by 299 to 70 on Monday – well short of the two-thirds of all MPs whose support are needed under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
All Conservative MPs backed the motion, but the vast majority of Labour MPs abstained, along with the SNP and DUP. All but one MP from the Liberal Democrats voted against it.
The vote came after Mr Johnson officially accepted the EU’s offer of an extension to the Brexit deadline to 31 January.
This means the UK will not now leave the EU on Thursday – 31 October – a promise at the heart of Mr Johnson’s campaign to become prime minister.
In a letter to EU officials, Mr Johnson said the further delay – which he insists was forced upon him by Parliament – was “unwanted”.
Mr Johnson said he would persist with his efforts to get an early election, telling MPs that “one way or another” the current deadlock had to be broken.
MPs will begin to debate and vote on a bill for a 12 December election – at least its second reading – on Tuesday lunchtime.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House of Commons, said the government wanted MPs to debate all stages of the bill in a day.
Usually a bill is debated over the course of several days, but Mr Rees-Mogg said the legislation would be “extremely short, simple, and limited in scope”.
The bill has to pass through the House of Commons and the House of Lords before it can come into effect.
Mr Rees-Mogg added that the government would not bring its Withdrawal Agreement Bill back to MPs for scrutiny, as would be required for Mr Johnson’s Brexit deal to become law.
The date is a sticking point as things stand, but it is not impossible that will become unglued by the time MPs vote tonight.
Conversations are going on through the “usual channels” – the party whips – and they may all find a way of climbing down to agree.
But for both the government and the smaller opposition parties, they have to be willing to hold hands and jump into this together.
The SNP and the Liberal Democrats are nervous as being seen as the PM’s little helpers.
And the chances of Labour coming to the wicket and backing it are very small.
Parliament is closer than it’s ever been to an election.
But it doesn’t mean that it happens tonight and it is still possible after those MPs have walked through the voting lobbies, we still have no Brexit, no budget and no traditionally functioning government.
