Brexit Bulletin: An Unexpected Visitor
May turns up at the House of Lords as her Brexit bill reaches the upper house.
Theresa May’s Brexit Law Hits the House of Lords
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As the House of Lords began debating her Article 50 bill on Monday, Theresa May watched proceedings from an unusual position: the steps below the chamber’s gold royal throne.
Though she stayed silent, the prime minister’s presence could have been seen as a warning to the unelected lawmakers not to meddle with her timeline to trigger Brexit by the end of March, Bloomberg’s Alex Morales reports. As she looked on, the opposition Labour party’s leader in the Lords, Angela Smith, pledged to not “block, wreck or sabotage the legislation before us.”