First published at 21:15 UTC on January 11th, 2019.
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve is on a mission to force a second EU referendum in the almost certain event that Theresa May's doomed Brexit deal is voted out by MPs next Tuesday.
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Conservative MP Dominic Grieve is on a mission to force a second EU referendum in the almost certain event that Theresa May's doomed Brexit deal is voted out by MPs next Tuesday.
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Tory MP and former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, has now become a bit of a front man for the Remain campaign.
He is the architect of two successful amendments to legislation that has forced the PM to speed up the Brexit process and also ensured that whatever she proposes after her deal is voted down, is amendable and can be debated.
And now he is calling for the time and date that the UK leaves the EU be removed from the Withdrawal Act and for the PM to then approach the EU to extend the Article 50 negotiation phase.
The trouble is, that is not actually possible as far as I can see.
The wording of the 2018 European Union Withdrawal Act means that a Minister of the Crown may amend the Act to ensure that the 'exit day' within it reflects the actual time that the EU treaties no longer apply to the UK.
So, the UK would surely have to negotiate extending Article 50 to another date and time first, and then amend the Withdrawal Act accordingly.
Amending the act itself won't change anything as we have to get the EU to agree first with the unanimous agreement of all EU27 member states and, if just one refuses to oblige, then we will be forced out on exit day by EU law anyway - unless we revoke the Article 50 letter unilaterally before exit day and Remain in the EU. But then the Act would again be wrong as it would have a date for our leaving the EU on it and statute is to be ..
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