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Peers in the House of Lords have started the lengthy process of scrutinising Theresa May’s flagship Brexit legislation. Peers in the House of Lords have started the lengthy process of scrutinising Theresa May’s flagship Brexit legislation.
It comes after an influential committee in the Lords warned that the legislation – in its current form – is constitutionally unacceptable and will need to be substantially rewritten.It comes after an influential committee in the Lords warned that the legislation – in its current form – is constitutionally unacceptable and will need to be substantially rewritten.
More than 180 members are already lined up to speak during the two-day debate on the Bill’s second reading. Expect impassioned interventions from both prominent Leave and Remain voices in the upper chamber. More than 190 members had lined up to speak during the two-day debate on the Bill’s second reading. During the first round of debates, on Tuesday, one of the best interventions came from the former Brexit minister Lord Bridges. 
But the crucial stage in the progress of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill in Parliament follows a leak of the Government’s impact assessments of Brexit, claiming that Britain will be worse off after leaving the bloc regardless of the deal – or lack of deal – struck with Brussels. He challenged the Prime Minister to make clear what sort of relationship the Government wanted with the EU after Brexit, adding ministers have so far provided “no clear answers”, offering only “conflicting, confusing voices”. 
It is another headache for the Prime Minister who is travelling to China today in a bid to intensify the UK’s push to secure a lucrative post-Brexit deal with Beijing. He told peers he feared the Government would come up with “meaningless waffle” for its future relationship with Brussels, and that the implementation period would be “a gangplank into thin air”.
In the Commons – as Ms May headed for China on an official visit - Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary raised an urgent question following a leak of the Government’s Brexit impact assessments on Monday evening. The papers claimed that Britain will be worse off after leaving the bloc regardless of the deal.
Labour have now vowed to win a Commons vote to force the release of the secret analysis laying bare the economic damage from Brexit, as the affair was branded a “cover up” by one MP.