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“I don’t think the Right Honourable Gentleman has quite got the hang of this.”
“I don’t think the Right Honourable Gentleman has quite got the hang of this.”
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Alex Chalk and Tania Mathias were the only MPs to vote against the Government on the Lords’ amendment.
She says she voted against her conscience to honour the referendum outcome, but is making a stand for Parliamentary sovereignty.
The Brexit Secretary urges MPs to keep the Bill clear and straightforward.
Whatever the outcome, MPs and peers must be able to have their say in the lobbies.
Even more than party disagreements over what should replace it, the idea of a very powerful second chamber is out of constitutional fashion.
She argues that by 2019 the people might have changed their minds.
“It is unwise” he warns, and “would deepen our divisions”.
It is clear that some peers are not so much focused on Parliamentary sovereignty as on finding a backdoor way to thwart and reverse the referendum result.
Plus: The wit of Malcolm Rifkind. I switch energy provider. An improvement by Donald Trump (up to a point). And: women MPs on my mind.
Without that difference, Brexit would not have happened.
The Conservative rebel, AKA Douglas Hogg, argued that a unilateral guarantee would grant the Government the moral high ground.
He warns peers against exceeding their role by treating the Bill like a Christmas tree, to which they want to add baubles.
The by-election winner becomes the first Conservative to represent the area since 1935.