REPORT: Anti-Brexit MPs Plot Coup to Stop UK Making Clean Break from EU
Remain-supporting backbench MPs are conspiring to upend Parliamentary protocol and seize control of Brexit from the Government in attempts to stop a WTO exit or even to prevent the UK from leaving the EU altogether, according to The Sunday Times.
A group of cross-party backbench, or non-Governmental, MPs are said to be tabling an amendment to change House of Commons rules so that backbenchers’ motions could precedence over Government business, according to sources speaking to the newspaper of record.
Downing Street is said to be concerned that that could result in laws being passed to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal, a suspension of Article 50 (the process for leaving the EU), or even stop Brexit entirely.
Tory party whip Julian Smith apparently overheard the plot, writing to Prime Minister Theresa May that should the conspirators succeed, “the Government has no control over the House of Commons and the Parliamentary business and legislation necessary to progress government policies. The Government would lose its ability to govern.”
Tory backbencher and ultra-remainer Nick Bowles confirmed to The Times that he wanted to make it illegal to leave the EU on WTO rules, saying, “We have a mechanism which will give Parliament control of the Brexit negotiations and ensure we do not leave the EU without a deal on March 29.
Details of the plot were leaked 48 hours before MPs are set to vote on Mrs May’s deal, on which she is widely expected to be defeated.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/13/report-anti-brexit-mps-plot-coup-stop-uk-leaving-eu-wto-terms/
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