Davis: MPs must unite on Brexit for sake of Britain
Nurses march on Commons to call for end to pay cap
forward to working with the whole House to deliver the Bill.”
Next Monday night, MPs will vote on whether to give the Bill a formal second reading in the Commons. Labour has pledged to try to vote against the measures, denouncing it as a “power grab” by ministers, despite party leader Jeremy Corbyn claiming he respects the outcome of last year’s EU referendum vote.
Mr Davis will tell MPs the Bill, drafted to transfer existing EU law on to the UK statute book, is necessary to stop businesses facing legal chaos.
Pro-Brussels Tories have signalled they will not vote with Labour against the Bill next week. But some are concerned about so-called Henry VIII powers that could give ministers sweeping powers to alter legislation.
At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, former Tory minister Anna Soubry asked for a meeting with Theresa May to raise backbench worries. Mrs May, in an attempt to head off a damaging Commons rebellion, told her: “I shall be happy to meet her to discuss the issue further.”
Meanwhile, an EU divorce bill report from the Conservative European Research Group and the Lawyers For Britain pressure group said “legally we owe the EU nothing.” HUNDREDS of nurses staged a noisy protest outside Parliament yesterday demanding higher wages as Jeremy Corbyn pressed Theresa May to end the cap on public sector pay.
The demonstration came as the civil service union announced it will ballot for strikes against the one per cent limit on increases for state employees, which came into effect in 2013 after a two-year freeze.
The nurses massed outside in Parliament Square, using placards, banners and music to drive home their “scrap the cap” slogan as the Commons held its first Prime Minister’s Questions of the new term.
There is speculation that the Government is poised to lift the pay cap on workers including nurses, teachers, police, prison officers and civil servants, from next year.
In the Commons Mr Corbyn warned poor NHS pay was seeing experienced nurses leaving and fewer training to do the job.
The Public and Commercial Services union is to ballot its civil service members over industrial action against the cap.
Mrs May said that the Government “absolutely valued” the work of the public sector and the 2018-19 remit for pay review bodies would be published this autumn.