Unelected Peers have passed an amendment to the European Union (EU) withdrawal bill, which anti-Brexit politicians hope could keep the UK tied to the bloc’s Customs Union and failing trade policies.
The government is braced for a series of defeats in the House of Lords, designed to hinder the UK’s exit from the bloc, as research identifies the “top 10 Brexit-blocking Lords” working to thwart the will of the people.
A transgender activist who was jailed for killing a partner and for the brutal attempted rape of a female shopkeeper was invited to speak at the House of Lords, it has emerged.
The Tory Brexit secretary has bluntly said Britain’s Brexit withdrawal agreement will “probably favour” the European Union (EU).
The House of Lords wants to remove students from the migration statistics, but hundreds of thousands are settling permanently after their studies.
The UK will struggle to control immigration after Brexit as it does not have the capacity to measure numbers arriving, leaving, and staying, a parliamentary report has acknowledged.
Senior government adviser Andrew Adonis has stirred controversy by comparing Brexit to appeasing Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and warning that Britain is in “serious danger”.
Biased coverage by the BBC of a recent attack by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem has been slammed by Lord Michael Grade, a former chairman of the publicly-funded British broadcaster.
The “politics and policies” of Israel are to blame for the stalled Middle East peace process, according to a report published by a House of Lords committee.
British volunteers who join the Israeli army are foreign fighters and should be prosecuted as such on their return to the UK, according to Baroness Warsi.
There is still much dispute as to precisely what it was that persuaded 17.4 million Britons to vote for Brexit last year. Some may have done it to regain Britain’s sovereignty, some to curb immigration, some because they realised correctly that everyone on the Remain side of the argument from one-hit-wonder gobshite Bob Geldof to that preening renter of overpriced desert islands Richard Branson was a weapons-grade, copper-bottomed tick.
LONDON (AFP) – British MPs will meet on Monday to discuss amendments made to a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Brexit, with further debate possible on Tuesday and Wednesday, the government said.
With the House of Lords passing two amendments to the bill to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and begin the process of leaving the European Union (EU), Remainer MPs may now openly rebel against Theresa May’s government.
The House of Lords has voted to force the government to give parliament a vote on the final Brexit deal, in a second defeat for the government.
LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a second defeat on her Brexit bill Tuesday as the House of Lords votes on another change which would give parliament the final say on leaving the EU.
The House of Lords has been warned not to make further changes to the Brexit bill as it will make it easier for the European Union (EU) to give Britain a bad deal.
LONDON (AFP) – Britain could legally leave the European Union without settling its accounts with the bloc, lawmakers said Saturday, while warning of the political risks of such an approach.
The government has insisted its timetable for triggering Article 50 and leaving the European Union (EU) is on track, despite a defeat in the House of Lords supported by the Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s unelected House of Lords on Wednesday handed the government a stinging – though likely temporary – defeat on its plans to leave the European Union, resolving that EU citizens should be promised the right to stay
Conservative MPs have called for Lord Heseltine to be sacked from his role as a government advisor after he vowed to lead a rebellion on Brexit. The former Deputy Prime Minister has said he is not seeking “confrontation” with the
The Lords have been told that there is no need to guarantee employers permanent access to a large pool of low-skilled foreign labour after Brexit, as investment and higher wages can make the country “self-sufficient” in workers. “We have 1.5 million
Attempts to overturn Brexit would pitch the country into the largest constitutional crisis it has faced in over a century, Brexit-supporting peers have warned their colleagues. Addressing the House of Lords yesterday, former Foreign Secretary Lord Hague made an impassioned
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s House of Lords launched a bid Monday to gain a greater say for Parliament over the terms of the U.K.’s European Union exit, as Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers not to hold up “what the British people want” by trying to delay the process.
Britain’s House of Lords is to begin debating a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit — a potentially tricky test given her Conservatives do not hold a majority there.
The House of Lords will be “playing with fire” if it tries to frustrate the Brexit legislation going through parliament, a former Chancellor has said.
The House of Lords has been warned it could be abolished if it tries to block Brexit later this month after a key bill cleared the House of Commons Wednesday evening.
The Speaker of the House of Lords has slapped down his counterpart in the House of Commons over his decision to effectively ban U.S. President Donald J. Trump from addressing Parliament.
Unelected peers in the House of Lords could delay the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union (EU) for up to a year by rejecting the bill which authorises the government to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the legal mechanism for beginning the Brexit process.
Article 50 will be invoked on March 9 at a summit of European leaders – but only if the Bill to invoke it can be steered through both Houses of Parliament without incident.
The government shelved plans to strip the unelected upper house of parliament of its right to veto new laws on Thursday, backing away from reforms demanded last year by then-prime minister David Cameron.
Brexit will be achieved – even if it takes the creation of 1,000 new peers, a purge of the Europhiles, and a general election, a leading Eurosceptic MP has vowed.
Liberal Democrat peer Jenny Tonge has resigned from her party after she was suspended for hosting a House of Lords meeting where guests heard that Jews were accountable for their own fate during the Holocaust.
Jews were held accountable for their own fate during the Holocaust at a public meeting held at the House of Lords.
Britain’s parliament has moved a step closer to outlawing late-term abortions for disabled children following concerns the practice is discriminatory. Abortion is currently legal in Britain up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, although the 1967 Abortion Act allows disabled children
A cross-party coalition of unelected members of the House of Lords is plotting to block, delay or “revisit” the referendum result.
A House of Lords report into the process of withdrawing from the European Union (EU) has stated that the European Council could extend the leaving process for Britain, if indeed the country votes to leave the EU on June 23rd. But
Jimmy Carter, the former Democratic President of the United States, appeared in Britain’s House of Lords Wednesday to discuss his campaign against Guinea worm disease.
(Reuters) – Parliament’s upper house backed on Wednesday lowering the voting age to 16 in a planned referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, a move that could delay the timing of the crucial vote. Britons can usually
A row has broken out between the government and the House of Lords over planned Tax Credit cuts for working people, leading to warnings of a “constitutional crisis”. The Lords are aiming to block the motion. In response, the Prime
A Conservative MP has suggested that Anglican bishops should be removed from the House of Lords and replaced with Syrian refugees. https://twitter.com/HenrySmithMP/status/656777834967539712 Henry Smith, MP for Crawley, made the comments after 84 Church of England bishops signed a letter calling
