Brexit – it’s time to get on with it! Now Lords warned NOT to delay break from Brussels
MPs last night gave Theresa May the all-clear to take Britain out of the EU.
By MACER HALL
Express.co.uk
Thu, Feb 9, 2017
The decisive 372-vote margin of victory was seen as a warning to peers not to thwart the will of the people by trying to block the measure in the House of Lords.
On a historic night in Westminster, the Government’s EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill passed its last Commons hurdle by 494 votes to 122
Leading Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “The British people spoke in a referendum, the House of Commons agreed in a Bill, the unelected Lords must concur.”
Brexit Secretary David Davis said: “We’ve seen a historic vote tonight – a big majority for getting on with negotiating our exit from the EU and a strong new partnership with its member states. It is now time for everyone to unite to make a success of the important task at hand for our country.”
A Government source said: “If the Lords don’t want to face an overwhelming public call to be abolished, they must get on, protect democracy and pass this Bill.”
Amid scenes of high drama Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party was torn asunder as 52 of his MPs defied a three-line whip to oppose the Brexit Bill.
But an expected rebellion by Remainers collapsed with veteran Europhile Kenneth Clarke the only Tory MP to vote against the measure.
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