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The House of Lords approve bill to prevent no-deal Brexit

cde.news desk 6 September 2019, 18:09 · 1 min read

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The Benn bill, intended to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, was approved by the House of Lords. It passed the upper house without being amended, which means that it does not have to go back to the House of Commons.

It will become law as soon as it gets royal assent, which should happen on Monday.

There were two votes earlier today, on Brexiter amendments intended to sabotage the bill, but they were easily defeated – by 268 votes to 47, and by 283 votes to 28.

Earlier in the week a group of Tory Brexiter peers tried to filibuster a motion designed to allow the bill to clear the Lords by the end of today. But they backed down after dragging out a debate past 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning after the opposition parties agreed not to use guillotine motions.

Via The Guardian

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