Theresa May vows to overturn Lords plan which could stop Brexit - as it happened

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Theresa May vowed to overturn an amendment to the government’s Brexit legislation after suffering a key defeat in the House of Lords.

The prime minister said the government would be “robust” in trying to block the passage of the change, voted through the upper chamber on Monday evening, when it comes back to a Commons vote.

But she has been forced to give way to Tory rebels who had revolted over an attempt to block measures that would increase the transparency of offshore tax havens.

Facing a possible Commons defeat, the government said it would not oppose an amendment aimed at exposing the super rich who heard dirty money in British territories.

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Key Points

• Tory rebels force government to reveal 'secret tainted money' in sheltered UK tax havens
• May vetoed plan to allow more overseas doctors to help fill NHS gaps, report suggests
• Prime minister suffers key Brexit defeat in Lords

[1 May 2018 11:17 · Ashley Cowburn]

Tory MP Heidi Allen signalled her support for the Lords amendments - and warned that the Commons would reject any "no deal" scenario.

"The passage of the Great Repeal Bill was always going to be turbulent, but the Lords are merely reflecting what the majority of MPs believe - that Parliament must have a say in whether the deal is good enough, and no deal never will be," she said.

[1 May 2018 11:29 · Ashley Cowburn]

Best for Britain, the pro-EU campaign, have dismissed Liam Fox's remarks earlier today about the House of Lords.

Eloise Todd, the chief executive, said:  "Liam Fox is throwing his toys out of the pram like a petulant child. Fox just looks silly threatening the Lords every time they defeat the Government." 

[1 May 2018 11:37 · Ashley Cowburn]

The London Evening Standard has a report suggesting Theresa May personally vetoed pleas in the Cabinet for visas for NHS doctors.

[1 May 2018 12:12 · Ashley Cowburn]

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Two polls have been released on Westminster voting intention in the last 24 hours - giving Theresa May's Conservatives a 5-point and 3-point lead over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour. Both were conducted before Amber Rudd's resignation, but during the height of the Windrush scandal. 

[1 May 2018 13:10 · Ashley Cowburn]

The Cabinet expressed its "strong disappointment" at the Lords defeats during its weekly meeting, Downing Street said.

The Prime Minister's official spokesman said the defeats "risked tying the Government's hands behind its back in negotiations with Brussels".

Theresa May promised that when the Bill returned to the House of Commons "the Government would be robust" and it was "vital to ensure that the legislation is able to deliver the smooth Brexit which is in the interests of everybody in the UK".

[1 May 2018 13:20 · Ashley Cowburn]

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[1 May 2018 13:48 · Ashley Cowburn]

More here from the Press Association on Downing Street's response to the Lord's vote on Monday evening.

The Prime Minister's official spokesman would not be drawn on the approach to individual amendments but said the Government believed the Bill had left the House of Commons "in a state which will deliver what the British public voted for".

He said: "We wish for the Bill to go through in the same form that it left the House of Commons, in a way that does deliver on that smooth Brexit."

Asked if the Prime Minister was "confident" that the changes imposed by the Lords could be reversed, the spokesman said: "What we believe is that the country wants us to deliver on smooth Brexit, which the public voted for.

"That is in the interests of the Houses of Parliament to allow us to deliver that."

Asked about Liam Fox's comments on the House of Lords, the spokesman said: "There is a role for it to play in providing scrutiny, but the British public have voted to leave the European Union and Parliament needs to get on and deliver that."

[1 May 2018 13:52 · Ashley Cowburn]