Sentences with phrase «defeated on the customs union»

If you watched the Tory opposition yesterday you could just about see the numbers for the government to be defeated on the customs union amendment coming back from the Lords next month.

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If the government is defeated in parliament on a key issue such as effectively staying in the Customs a Union Brexit would be dealt a severe blow.

That has meant that May's government has been repeatedly defeated over the EU withdrawal bill, with peers inflicting 15 defeats on issues such as the customs union, the Irish border and removing the precise date of Brexit — 29 March 2019 — from the legislation.

The prospect of Commons trouble over the customs union has been raised since ministers suffered a major defeat in the House of Lords on the subject last month.

Pro-European Tories play down prospect of voting with Corbyn to defeat government on custom union - Politics live

Now that Labour appears to have come down firmly on the side of a softer Brexit, after months of hedging its bets, there's a renewed focus at Westminster on whether Tory rebels can defeat Theresa May and keep the UK in the customs union.

The House of Lords has already defeated the Government on the bill on numerous occasions, including on calls to keep the UK in a customs union with the EU.

But support for May's partnership plan from the leading remainers, while angering the Brexiters, could make it more likely that she will avoid a damaging defeat on staying in the customs union, which Labour has said it will support.

It raises the prospect of them eventually withdrawing a customs union amendment to the trade bill, on which the government faces defeat, and so bolstering the prime minister's chances of getting her Brexit deal through the Commons.

Last week, the Government suffered a crushing defeat in the House of Lords on an amendment designed to keep Britain in the customs union.