Second Brexit Bill defeat looms as House of Lords demand ‘meaningful’ vote

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>UK Peers look set to inflict a second defeat on their government&&num;8217&semi;s Brexit Bill by demanding a &&num;8220&semi;meaningful&&num;8221&semi; vote on the final divorce deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Independent crossbencher Lord Pannick QC said British Prime Minister Theresa May had accepted the need to give Parliament a vote on the terms negotiated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But she was refusing to include that promise in the European Union &lpar;Notification of Withdrawal&rpar; Bill currently going through Parliament&comma; which will allow the Government to trigger the Article 50 process of leaving the EU&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moving an amendment to the Bill&comma; Mr Pannick&comma; who represented lead claimant Gina Miller in the successful Article 50 legal challenge&comma; said the British parliament should be required to approve the deal at the end of the negotiating process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Tory former leader Lord Howard of Lympne said the change would give the Lords a &&num;8220&semi;statutory veto&&num;8221&semi; on the Prime Minister&&num;8217&semi;s decision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Forsyth of Drumlean warned of a &&num;8220&semi;hidden agenda&&num;8221&semi; behind the move to reject the expressed will of the people in the EU referendum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier the UK Government comfortably defeated a Liberal Democrat bid to give voters a final say on the Brexit deal in a referendum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move to put the outcome of Brexit negotiations to a referendum was heavily defeated by 336 votes to 131&comma; Government majority 205&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The legislation&comma; to trigger Article 50 and start the Brexit talks&comma; is set to clear the Lords later in the day but will have to go back to the Commons after last week&&num;8217&semi;s heavy defeat over the rights of EU nationals already living in the UK to remain&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In report stage debate on the Bill&comma; Lord Pannick said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The purpose of this amendment is very simple&period; It is to ensure that at the end of the negotiating process the approval of Parliament is required for the terms of our withdrawal from the EU&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the Prime Minister&&num;8217&semi;s commitment to such a vote should be written into the Bill &&num;8220&semi;no ifs and no buts&&num;8221&semi;&period; The Labour-led amendment&comma; tabled with Lib Dem and crossbench support&comma; also required the approval of both Houses if the Prime Minister decided that the UK should leave the EU without agreement on the terms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It must be for Parliament to decide whether to prefer no deal or the deal offered by the EU&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Lord Pannick said&period; The amendment wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t delay notification of withdrawal or commit the Government to adopt any specific approach in the negotiations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t impede the Government in the negotiations any more than the undertaking already given by the Prime Minister&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It will guarantee that the Government must come back to both Houses and seek approval for the result of negotiations&period;&&num;8221&semi; Lord Forsyth went on to accuse Lord Pannick of a &&num;8220&semi;clever lawyer&&num;8217&semi;s confection&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Responding to an intervention from Lord Pannick&comma; Lord Forsyth said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;This House is absolutely full of people who still haven&&num;8217&semi;t come to terms with the results of the referendum&comma; and this is a clever lawyer&&num;8217&semi;s confection in order to reverse the results of the referendum&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This prompted groans from other peers&comma; as did further comments that the amendment would tie the Prime Minister down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lord Forsyth said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;These amendments are trying to tie down the Prime Minister&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Tie her down by her hair&comma; by her arms&comma; by her legs&comma; in every conceivable way in order to prevent her getting an agreement&comma; and in order to prevent us leaving the European Union&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lord Turner of Ecchinswell&comma; a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Any idea that the vote of last June reflects the will of the people in some unanimous&comma; all the people together&comma; Una Voce&comma; unanimous&comma; absolute and forever unchanging fashion is &&num;8230&semi; not democratic&comma; but the Brezhnev Doctrine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m a bit surprised and depressed by the fact that this Brezhnev Doctrine&comma; 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