Boris Johnson Suffered Brexit Bill Defeat in Decisive Moment

Boris Johnson's plan to derail international law over Brexit is set to be blocked next month by the House of Lords, which wins the US election next week with Joe Biden.

Mr. Biden warned that Mr. Johnson's UK internal market bill would undermine Northern Ireland's peace process and he would never sign a trade agreement with the UK until he removed the bill.

Members of the upper house of parliament is expected to vote overwhelmingly to Mr. Biden to exclude six clauses from the bill, which ministers have admitted would violate the UK withdrawal treaty signed last year with the EU.

The House of Lords will vote on 9 November, less than a week after the US presidential election on 3 November, and is likely to be the final stage of EU negotiations with the UK on the new trade deal.

Mr. Johnson would then face the dilemma of whether his government should commit to re-enacting controversial clauses in the House of Commons if he risks a line with Mr Biden - if he goes to the polls Wins - and with Brussels. The European Commission has already begun legal proceedings against the UK for breaching the "good faith" provisions in the treaty.

There is little question that Mr. Johnson is going to be defeated within the Upper House, where Conservative peers led by former Tory leader Michael Howard joined forces with opposition and crossbench members to condemn the legislation earlier this month Were.

On 20 October Peers voted 395 to 169, regretting that the internal market bill would "undermine the rule of law and damage the reputation of the United Kingdom".

Mr. Johnson introduced clauses for the interior market bill as he claimed that the EU was getting to interpret the Brexit withdrawal treaty - and therefore the Northern Ireland Protocol - in an "extreme" manner, a difficult one between the region and the rest of the world. Construction of the border. Britain.

The proposed legislation would seek to limit the powers of the ECU Union to work out state aid for Northern Ireland companies and customs arrangements within the region.

But Mr. Biden said last month that the bill would weaken the agreement between the European Union and Britain to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland. He tweeted, "We cannot allow the great Friday Agreement that provides peace to Northern Ireland caused the casualties of Brexit."

It was expected in November after the House of Lords vote, but peers wanted to remove six clauses from the bill - at the earliest opportunity - at the committee's level of the bill.

Lords leader, Angela Smith, said: "I will seek to resolve the difficulty from Downing Street. It would be wise for them to remove the aggressive approach, so peers can focus on investigating and improving the rest of the bill." "

The Lords a vote may be in the final stages of negotiations after the Brexit trade deal with Britain. There will be talks in London on Wednesday before going to Brussels on Thursday.

Both sides are now working toward a mid-November deadline for a deal, a deadline that would still leave the European Parliament enough time to ratify the agreement.

The European Union's parliament has scheduled its vote for its final session of the year, in the week of 14 December, two weeks before Britain's North-Brexit transition ends.

EU officials said the talks in London this week were taken up with the technical challenge of taking out a common text in areas where there have already been considerable agreements, including several conditions for trade in goods and services, Are included, with a mixture of EU and UK drafts being used as base texts which are then being revised.

A spokesman for the European Commission said on Tuesday that "both sides are intimately engaged to arrive at a deal", but one person briefed on the talks said that so far no breakthrough in removing the main sticking points of the fishery Milli, for "level playing field" status agreements for trade and governance.