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  European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Decline Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted aye against ending the supremacy of EU law in UK law; against converting EU law into domestic law on the UK's exit from the European Union and against giving ministers the power to correct deficiencies in retained EU law.    
  @ MP voted no to end the supremacy of EU law in UK law; to convert EU law into domestic law on the UK's exit from the European Union and to give ministers the power to correct deficiencies in retained EU law.    
  
  The majority of MPs voted to end the supremacy of European Union law in United Kingdom law and convert EU law into domestic law on the UK's exit from the European Union. 
  
  The majority of MPs were also voting to give ministers the power to introduce regulations to prevent, remedy or mitigate: (a) any failure of retained EU law to operate effectively, or (b) any other deficiency in retained EU law, arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.
  
  MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill[1] 
  
  The motion under debate was:
  :That the Bill be now read a Second time.
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  : to leave out from âThatâ to the end of the Question and add
  
  :âThat this House
  :''respects'' the EU referendum result and recognises that the UK will leave the EU, 
  :''believes'' that insisting on proper scrutiny of this Bill and its proposed powers is the responsibility of this sovereign Parliament, 
  :''recognises'' the need for considered and effective legislation to preserve EU-derived rights, protections and regulations in UK law as the UK leaves the EU but 
  :''declines'' to give a Second Reading to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill because the Bill fails to protect and reassert the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty by handing sweeping powers to Government Ministers allowing them to bypass Parliament on key decisions, without any meaningful or guaranteed Parliamentary scrutiny, fails to include a presumption of devolution which would allow effective transfer of devolved competencies coming back from the EU to the devolved administrations and makes unnecessary and unjustified alterations to the devolution settlements, fails to provide certainty that rights and protections will be enforced as effectively in the future as they are at present, risks weakening human rights protections by failing to transpose the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights into UK law, provides no mechanism for ensuring that the UK does not lag behind the EU in workplace protections and environmental standards in the future and prevents the UK implementing strong transitional arrangements on the same basic terms we currently enjoy, including remaining within a customs union and within the Single Market.â.
  
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  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/europeanunionwithdrawal.html Parliament's webpage on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill]
  
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