Lisa O’Carroll
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And that essentially means it's a statutory instrument, so it's not debated in Parliament.
And it doesn't go through the normal parliamentary process.
And it was the kind of process that was used by the Tories to exit the EU.
I spoke to somebody in the Labour Party today who said, you know, everything isn't published yet.
We've still got ways and means that we will be giving parliament scrutiny.
And, you know, this is the kind of thing that the UK did when it was in the EU.
But the difference now is that the UK has no say in the legislation in Brussels.
Andrew Griffith, Conservative shadow business secretary, said this bill would reduce Parliament to a spectator.
And Farage has made a similar argument, saying that it would be a direct betrayal of the Brexit referendum.
They don't have a majority in Parliament, so Labour can push this through.
I wrote about Brexit for many, many years.
I think most people don't talk about Brexit.
They have a kind of fuzzy feeling.
Yeah, I would like to be back in the EU.
That's Guardian readers, that is.