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Brexit Delay Bill Becomes Law As MPs And Peers Rush Through Yvette Cooper Move To Stop No-Deal
09/04/2019
Act legally forces May to extend the UK’s time in the EU. / Historic legislation to delay Brexit has been passed by MPs in a frantic bid to force Theresa May to avoid crashing out of the EU without a Brussels deal.
Government fails to block draft law from Yvette Cooper and Sir Oliver Letwin.
Cooper plan to legally block no-deal Brexit clears first Parliamentary hurdle, by 315 to 310 votes
03/04/2019
The bill will now be voted on again at 10pm when it will become clear whether MPs want to make a no-deal Brexit illegal.
Cooper-Letwin bill: here’s how the plan to prevent a no-deal Brexit by law will actually work
03/04/2019
'For the sake of jobs, public services and our national security we need to avert no deal,' says Yvette Cooper.
Cooper-Letwin bill on article 50 passes parliament in just three working days. / Backbench MPs have passed historic legislation to delay article 50, forcing the government to set out its timetable for the length of the Brexit delay in order to prevent the UK exiting the EU with no deal.
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