Britain’s 800-year-old parliament has a big decision to make. After months of drama and delay, the country’s fate could be decided next week in a series of Brexit votes
LONDON - Britain’s 800-year-old parliament has a big decision to make, and little time to make it.
Rich in pageantry and theatre, Westminster’s parliamentary format has been adapted, modernised and exported to more than two dozen countries across the globe. “There’s now a live battle between the government as the executive and the membership of the parliament about who has control,” said Pete Wishart, a member of parliament from the Scottish National Party.On March 12, May is expected to try once more to get her deal approved, though much will rest on whether she can secure extra assurances from Brussels about the thorny issue of Northern Ireland’s border.
“This is the first time the public decided in a referendum something that was not what most members of parliament were in favour of - that is this challenge we’re having - this is the argument between government and parliament,” said Mark Harper, a lawmaker with the ruling Conservatives and former minister.
But the DUP and a eurosceptic faction within May’s Conservative party don’t support her current Brexit deal and they joined opposition lawmakers on Jan. 15 to reject it and inflict the biggest defeat in modern history. On one day in February, the five-foot-long ceremonial mace that is laid in the chamber to mark the start of each day’s proceedings, was lifted after just four hours to draw business to an early close.
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