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ARTICLE · 21 SEPTEMBER 2017

Great Repeal Bill – We've Only Just Begun

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Earlier this week, following two days of debate (on 7 and 11 September), the House of Commons voted in favour of the Government's motion that the EU (Withdrawal) Bill ‘be now read a Second time'.

United KingdomGovernment, Public Sector
David Mundy
David Mundy
Aaron Nelson
Aaron Nelson

Earlier this week, following two days of debate (on 7 and 11 September), the House of Commons voted in favour of the Government's motion that the EU (Withdrawal) Bill 'be now read a Second time'. This means that the House of Commons has approved the principle of the Bill, which will now progress to the Committee stage, where the Bill's provisions will be considered in detail and some (most likely) modified.

Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the SDLP and the Green Party had opposed the Bill entirely. Labour tabled a 'reasoned amendment' which set out why:

'... the Bill fails to protect and reassert the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty by handing sweeping powers to Government Ministers allowing them to bypass Parliament on key decisions, without any meaningful or guaranteed Parliamentary scrutiny, fails to include a presumption of devolution which would allow effective transfer of devolved competencies coming back from the EU to the devolved

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