The EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017 looks very likely to pass through the HoC today without any modifications (HERE) and will soon go to The Lords. I have written to many of the Lords to ask that they try to amend the bill to give parliament more control at the end.
Mrs May wants to trigger Article 50 by March 9th at a European Summit and it seems she may well achieve this aim. I do not expect the Lords to stop the bill altogether since this would likely bring on a general election and probably spark the demise of the upper chamber in double quick time.
However, I hope they may be able to delay matters. The economic impacts are beginning to be felt and I think if we can string things out a bit some of the lies put about by the leave campaign will be seen for what they were.
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