The House of Lords are debating whether to support preventing a no-deal Brexit.
The House of Commons swiftly supported this idea, the Cooper-Letwin bill, by one vote on Wednesday night, meaning there was a slim majority for supporting an extension of Article 50.
In order for the Government to ask the EU for a delay, the bill must pass in the House of Lords. If it does, the Prime Minister could ask the EU for a further delay at a summit next Wednesday.
In the Lords, Lord Leslie Griffiths, a Methodist minister and peer who sits on the Labour benches, took a few minutes out inbetween votes to explain what was going on.
He explained that the proposal seeks to take the initiative of our exit strategy away from the executive (government) and into the hands of parliament.
He told Premier’s News Hour at lunch time: “We are just starting our deliberations now…we’ve already voted three times and I’m standing here and I can hear the bell calling me to vote again and there will be a dozen other calls during the day.”
When asked how he will be voting, he replied: “My position is that…the decision was taken and it was taken by the elected House [of Commons] and the House of Lords mustn’t stand in the way of a piece of legislation that comes to us in that way. So, I will be supporting all the votes that seek to give support for the position the House of Commons established…
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