{"id":140415,"date":"2018-06-13T05:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T05:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/brexit-mps-say-pm-must-honour-assurances-over-parliaments-role\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T05:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T05:56:50","slug":"brexit-mps-say-pm-must-honour-assurances-over-parliaments-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/brexit-mps-say-pm-must-honour-assurances-over-parliaments-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: MPs say PM must honour &#8216;assurances&#8217; over Parliament&#8217;s role"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069x4rp.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionSolicitor General, Robert Buckland says Brexit legislation will be improved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Tory MPs are to discuss with ministers what will happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit - amid calls for Theresa May to honour &quot;assurances&quot; to them.<\/p>\n<p>The government averted a rebellion on Tuesday over whether Parliament should have a decisive say in such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>MPs said they were offered, in a last-minute concession, real &quot;input&quot; if no deal with the EU was done by December. <\/p>\n<p>But Solicitor General Robert Buckland said while talks may &quot;yield fruit&quot; - he could not guarantee a change in policy.<\/p>\n<p>While promising &quot;further discussions&quot;, he said he was concerned that empowering Parliament to &quot;instruct&quot; ministers what to do in the event of no deal would leave the UK in &quot;very rocky constitutional territory&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The UK will leave the EU on 29 March next year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scottish government wants devolution changes<\/li>\n<li>Minister quits government over Brexit<\/li>\n<li>Phillip Lee quits: How big a problem is it for May?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The BBC&#039;s political editor Laura Kuenssberg said she had been told by a government source that no actual concessions had been agreed, and the only agreement was to keep talking. <\/p>\n<p>Details of precisely what this will involve could emerge in the coming days when the EU Withdrawal bill is due to return to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Remain-supporting Conservative Anna Soubry, one of the MPs who met Mrs May on Tuesday, said she trusted Mrs May to &quot;honour the undertaking she gave&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @Anna_Soubry               @Anna_Soubry                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @Anna_Soubry: But Bernard you weren\u2019t there and I was. I trust our PM to honour the undertaking she gave. I am sure a sensible amendment will be forthcoming which we can all agree to. \" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anna_Soubry\/status\/1006637018011590657~\/news\/uk-politics-44463199\"\/>Image Copyright @Anna_Soubry                   @Anna_Soubry                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n<p>The government, which has promised MPs a &quot;meaningful vote&quot; on the final deal, avoided defeat on the issue on Tuesday as it overturned a series of amendments to the bill made by peers.<\/p>\n<p>The victory - by 324 votes to 298 - only came after public haggling between ministers and would-be rebels and a meeting between Mrs May and more than a dozen Tory MPs.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069x7v0.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe government has dodged a defeat on its key Brexit legislation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Tory cabinet minister Dominic Grieve, who tried to broker a compromise between MPs and ministers, has warned a no-deal scenario could lead to a &quot;national crisis&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>In such an event, he said Parliament should be able to flex its muscles by requiring ministers to come forward with a plan of action, which MPs would be able to debate and vote on. <\/p>\n<h2>Analysis<\/h2>\n<p><strong>BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>Politics is often about the big picture, but sometimes it is a festival for pedants.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, in Westminster, there is a very very big difference between the promise of more serious chat about something with the possibility of a change - and a promise actually to do something different, especially if it is made by the occupant of Number 10.<\/p>\n<p>So just hours after the concession, (or non-concession) very, very dark mutterings began from those who had been persuaded by what they thought was a promise.<\/p>\n<p>Read Laura&#039;s full blog<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I expect the government to honour its commitments and I expect the PM to honour her commitments and I have no reason to distrust the approach she took with us,&quot; Mr Grieve told the BBC&#039;s Newsnight. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;If it were to turn out there was a problem, we will deal with it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow MP Antoinette Sandbach rejected suggestions by leading Brexiteers in her party that this would tie the prime minister&#039;s hands in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What it does is put in place a structure if things do not go as planned,&quot; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I trust the prime minister. It was the prime minister who I sat in front of this afternoon and who gave us those assurances.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, a leading Brexit backer, said the concessions could &quot;come back to haunt&quot; the government if they amounted to a veto over the terms of the UK&#039;s departure.<\/p>\n<h2>&#039;No inconsistency&#039;<\/h2>\n<p>Jacob Rees-Mogg, chair of the influential European Research Group of MPs, urged Mrs May to reject outright Mr Grieve&#039;s further call for MPs to effectively take control of negotiations in the last resort if no deal is agreed by February 2019. <\/p>\n<p>He said a concession of this kind would have been &quot;revolutionary&quot; as the Commons cannot override the government when it came to negotiating international treaties.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about what had been promised, Mr Buckland, the solicitor general, said the government remained &quot;open-minded&quot; but he would not &quot;blithely&quot; commit to any changes until he had had those conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I want to end up having a meaningful discussion so we can move forward positively. There is an expectation that a discussion will yield fruit and I am not saying it won&#039;t.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He rejected suggestions ministers were already backtracking on promises made to MPs, insisting he did not want to raise any &quot;false expectations&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no inconsistency here. It is clear we don&#039;t just want to have a chat but a proper discussion and negotiation.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Withdrawal debate continues<\/h2>\n<p>Tuesday&#039;s Commons debate marked the start of the government&#039;s attempts to undo most of the changes to its EU Withdrawal Bill that were put forward by the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the votes, the government suffered its first ministerial resignation over Brexit as Phillip Lee quit the Ministry of Justice so he could speak out freely.<\/p>\n<p>During a five-hour debate, MPs reinstated the precise day the UK will leave the EU - 29 March 2019 - in the proposed legislation while backing an amendment on the Irish border, guaranteeing there will be no new border arrangements without the agreement of the UK and Irish authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A series of further votes will take place on Wednesday, with no defeats expected after ministers agreed compromise wording over post-Brexit plans for a &quot;customs arrangement&quot;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionSolicitor General, Robert Buckland says Brexit legislation will be improved Tory MPs are to discuss with ministers what will happen in the event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140415","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=140415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}