{"id":11713,"date":"2017-03-12T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uk-mps-urged-to-back-brexit-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:49:58","slug":"uk-mps-urged-to-back-brexit-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uk-mps-urged-to-back-brexit-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MPs urged to back Brexit bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Media captionDavid Davis: &quot;The issue of the rights of citizens is the first thing&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">David Davis has urged MPs to back the Brexit bill and insisted the UK would be prepared if it has to leave the EU with no deal in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit secretary urged MPs not to &quot;tie the prime minister&#039;s hands&quot; over the issues of a final vote on the deal and EU citizens&#039; rights in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>He said while they were preparing for a &quot;no deal&quot; Brexit he thought it was unlikely negotiations would break down.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit bill returns to MPs on Monday after two defeats in the Lords.<\/p>\n<p>If MPs pass the bill, Theresa May could trigger Article 50 - the formal process of Brexit - as early as Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>But it suffered two defeats in the House of Lords on the issue of the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and whether Parliament will get a &quot;meaningful vote&quot; on the terms of any Brexit deal following negotiations.  <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has said she will take the UK out of the EU even if MPs reject the deal she is offered.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brexit: all you need to know<\/li>\n<li>Theresa May sets out her approach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Davis, who will lead negotiations for the UK, addressed the two issues in an interview on BBC One&#039;s Andrew Marr Show. &quot;It&#039;s inconceivable to me that there wouldn&#039;t be a vote on the outcome,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But the simple truth is what I don&#039;t want to do is to take a simple bill which is designed to do nothing more than to put the result of the referendum into law... please don&#039;t tie the prime minister&#039;s hands in the process of doing that, for things which we expect to attain anyway.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether a rejection by Parliament of the deal would send the UK back to the negotiating table, he said: &quot;There is a limited time on this ... it&#039;s a two-year time on Article 50 so there&#039;ll be a limit to which we can do that. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Secondly what we can&#039;t have is either House of Parliament reversing the decision of the British people - they haven&#039;t got a veto.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said citizens&#039; rights in the UK and Europe would be &quot;the first thing&quot; discussed in Brexit talks and said he believed there was a &quot;moral responsibility&quot; to EU citizens but the issue had to be &quot;resolved together&quot; with other EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government was working on &quot;a contingency plan&quot; in case a deal could not be reached with the EU - after a report by the Foreign Affairs Committee said it had found no evidence of serious contingency planning by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit Secretary told BBC One&#039;s Andrew Marr Show he believed it was &quot;not remotely likely&quot; that there would be a complete breakdown in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &quot;The simple truth is, we have been planning for the contingency, all the various outcomes, all the possible outcomes. It&#039;s not just my team, it&#039;s the whole of Whitehall, it&#039;s every single department. But, understand, it&#039;s the contingency plan. The aim is to get a good outcome.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His Cabinet colleague, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, has told BBC Radio 5 live&#039;s Pienaar&#039;s Politics: &quot;Certainly it wouldn&#039;t be the end of the world if we had no deal, but it would be preferential to have a deal&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told ITV&#039;s Peston on Sunday &quot;it would be perfectly OK if we weren&#039;t able to get an agreement but I&#039;m sure that we will&quot; adding: &quot;I don&#039;t think the consequences of &#039;no deal&#039; are by any means as apocalyptic as some people like to pretend.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Amendments were made to the EU withdrawal bill last week after they were backed by a majority of peers.<\/p>\n<p>Labour, which claims it is the only party with a &quot;radical vision&quot; for Brexit, has appealed to Mrs May to let the amendments go through.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer urged the prime minister to consider keeping the &quot;really important&quot; amendments called for by the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky News: &quot;The first one is to guarantee the rights of EU citizens who are in this country... they&#039;ve been left in limbo... The second one, make sure that Parliament has a vote on the deal in two years time.  <\/p>\n<p>He said the prospects of &quot;crashing out without a deal&quot; would be &quot;a disaster&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;You absolutely have to have a vote in parliament before that could possibly happen. So we&#039;ll be fighting for those tomorrow,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill could complete its final stages on Monday if the Lords accepts the decisions made by MPs.<\/p>\n<p>BBC political correspondent Susana Mendonca said Mr Davis was worried a handful of Conservative MPs might rebel, potentially allowing the amendments to stand. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the bill passes the Commons unchanged, it will go back to the Lords, raising the possibility the amendments will be re-imposed, she added.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-39245298 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media captionDavid Davis: &quot;The issue of the rights of citizens is the first thing&quot; David Davis has urged MPs to back the Brexit bill and insisted the UK would be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}