Peers in the House of Lords have voiced their concerns about some of the content of the EU withdrawal bill. They will be asking for a rewrite of the bill so that certain points are substantially changed to ensure greater legal certainty.
The EU withdrawal bill, which has already gone through the House of Commons, will be debated extensively during this week by the members of the House of Lords who are concerned about the British people not getting a second say about Brexit.
According to peers in the House of Lords, the current draft of the EU withdrawal bill doesn’t ensure any legal certainty and is “fundamentally flawed from a constitutional perspective”. Changes must be made.
This Bill will be looking on how EU legislation is to be transplanted into British law. This has to, in principle, be achieved by the EU leave date in March 2019. Politicians and others involved in the Brexit process have been aware from the very beginning that this would be a very complicated matter.
One of the elements that has generated most of the House of Lords’ concerns is the fact that, as the Bill currently stands, ministers would be granted the power to modify regulations without the full participation of the rest of Parliament.
House of Lords not Happy with EU Withdrawal Bill
