The House of Lords has voted against the government to put in place measures to try and block parliament being prorogued by a new Prime Minister intent on forcing through a no deal Brexit.
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The House of Lords voted by 272 votes to 169, a majority of 103, for what is being called the Anderson Amendment, after the cross-bench peer who tabled it.
This aims to put in place measures surrounding the Northern Ireland power sharing executive that would force the government to sit throughout October.
The guardian reports that:
"This means the bill, as now amended, could make it illegal for the government to prorogue parliament in the autumn if the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland has not been restored."
And, says the Guardian piece, thirteen Tory peers voted against their own government on this bill.
The Anderson amendment is based on the ones Dominic Grieve tried to push through the House of Commons on the same bill very recently.
Grieve did manage to get one through that instructed the government to make fortnightly reports on power sharing though.
What the Anderson amendment does, is adds to this by forcing the government to make reports and hold debates on the progress being made towards the restoration of the power sharing arrangement in Northern Ireland. That I assume makes it harder to avoid than just making reports.
The bill does have to go back to the House of Commons tomorrow, where this amendment inserted by the Lords could well be voted out.
There is now fear-mongering talk about the po..
