U.K. Labour Party Will Try to Amend May's Brexit Legislation
- Party says it can’t vote for EU Withdrawal Bill as it stands
- Decision means May risks defeat over amendments to bill
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The U.K. Labour Party moved its opposition to Theresa May’s Brexit strategy up a notch by saying it would try to amend her European Union Withdrawal Bill to change clauses that give ministers power to modify laws with little scrutiny.
The bill, which will be debated in Parliament for the first time on Thursday, is designed to facilitate the huge task of transferring four decades of European rules into British law, providing legal continuity on the day the U.K. leaves the EU. According to the House of Commons Library, that means over 12,000 EU regulations. To do that, the bill gives ministers the power to change aspects of EU law without full parliamentary scrutiny.