Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Brexit Bill is branded a ‘power grab’
MPS were due early today to back Theresa May’s Brexit Bill — despite warnings of a “power grab”.
Downing Street was “confident” of victory after Labour rebels pledged to back the EU (Withdrawal) Bill so it could clear its latest Commons hurdle.
It shifts existing EU laws on to the UK statue book to give businesses and citizens certainty for when Britain leaves the bloc.
But Jeremy Corbyn labelled it “a power grab by the Government at the expense of our democratically elected Parliament”.
The Labour leader will tell the TUC Congress in Brighton today of his fears that Britain will end up as a “deregulated free market tax haven” under the Tory approach to Brexit.