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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a challenge within his Conservative Party, with several MPs mobilizing to vote against controversial legislation announced by the government, which aims to break parts of the “Brexit” deal. , negotiated and ratified with the European Union.
The decision of the British Government to withdraw the legislation on the regulation of the internal market, contrary to the Irish Protocol agreed with Brussels, led the EU to issue an ultimatum to the Boris Johnson executive, threatening to take the case to court.
Faced with the imminent fight with Brussels, the deputy conservative Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, has tabled an amendment to the bill to force a separate vote on the British domestic market legislation, which will begin discussion in the House of Commons from next Monday. It is not yet certain that it will get approval from the House of Lords.
According to The Guardian, Bob Neill’s initiative has the support of former ministers such as Damian Green and Oliver Heald. HE Independent, for his part, says that the internal revolt in tories it has at least 30 conservative MPs who are willing to vote against the government.
The parliamentary challenge was joined by the voice of former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard who, in an interview with Sky News, said he would be “very surprised” if Boris Johnson’s bill were approved by the House of Lords. Howard was also highly critical of Northern Ireland’s minister, Brandon Lewis, who admitted that his government’s plan violates international law.
“I never thought I would hear a British minister, much less a Conservative minister, say that the government would invite Parliament to act in violation of international law,” former executive member Margaret Thatcher told the British television station. Ahead of Howard’s remarks, former Conservative Prime Ministers John Major and Theresa May also publicly expressed their disgust at Boris Johnson’s plan.
With the revolt underway just two days before the legislation began to be discussed in the House of Commons, Boris Johnson tried to reassure tories in a videoconference during the afternoon of this Friday. During the meeting, he said that breaking the agreement was “necessary to prevent a foreign power from breaking” the UK, according to report by journalist Paul Brand, of ITV, but, in the end, did not respond to the questions of the deputies.
In Brussels, the UK’s watchdog group in the European Parliament issued a statement expressing concern about the “gross and unacceptable violation of international law” in legislation announced by the British government, and announced that if London violates the withdrawal agreement, “The European Parliament will not, under any circumstances, ratify any agreement between the EU and the UK.”
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