Tory MPs have blocked a bid to give MPs any chance of amending the law that will enact Boris Johnson ’s Brexit deal. A Bill transforming the 1,246-page trade pact into UK law is being rushed through the Commons in just four and a half hours today despite containing 80 pages, 40 clauses and 6 schedules.
MPs will have precisely zero minutes to table amendments in the ‘Committee Stage’, which usually lasts several days on other Bills.
Any amendments would not change the Brexit deal itself, which is an international treaty, but would have a role in democratic scrutiny and create new obligations alongside it.
They would have included a Labour amendment bidding to form an agreement with the EU allowing musicians’ tours to continue. The SNP
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