The FOURTEEN times Lords have meddled

THE Government has been defeated 14 times in the Lords at the report stage of the EU Withdrawal Bill. Peers backed a series of amendments that include keeping the EU charter of fundamental rights, scrapping the fixed exit date and now staying in the European Economic Area.

AMENDMENT 1: Requires the Government to make a statement on its efforts to negotiate a customs union

AMENDMENT 2: Insists changes to employments, equality, health and safety, consumer standards and environmental law can only be made by primary legislation AMENDMENT 3: Incorporates the EU’s

controversial Charter of Fundamental Rights into UK law AMENDMENT 4: Ends ministers’ ability to specify when individuals are allowed to challenge EU law kept after Brexit AMENDMENT 5: Creates a right to bring court cases if the UK fails to comply with the general principles of EU law AMENDMENT 6: Limits the scope of socalled ‘Henry VIII’ powers that will allow ministers to re-write EU laws as they are copied into British law

AMENDMENT 7: Removes Theresa May’s ability to walk away from Brexit talks without a vote of Parliament

AMENDMENT 8: Stops ministers implementing the deal unless Parliament has approved a mandate for negotiations about the future relationship.

AMENDMENT 9: Maintains Dublin Regulations allowing asylum seekers who reach Europe to join family already in Britain AMENDMENT 10: Enshrines support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Bill AMENDMENT 11: Allows Government to stay in EU agencies or mirror EU rules AMENDMENT 12: Removes the 29 March 2019 fixed Brexit date from the Bill AMENDMENT 13: Forces the Government to negotiate continued membership of the European Economic Area AMENDMENT 14: Creates a parliamentary committee to decide on whether extra scrutiny is needed on certain regulations