{"id":292606,"date":"2017-01-31T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-parliament-begins-debate-on-brexit-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:10:02","slug":"uk-parliament-begins-debate-on-brexit-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-parliament-begins-debate-on-brexit-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parliament begins debate on Brexit bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UK lawmakers have gathered in Parliament to debate whether the British government can trigger Britain\u2019s formal exit from the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bill authorizing UK Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 of the <span style=\"color:black\">EU&#8217;s<\/span> Lisbon Treaty starts its route through Parliament on Tuesday and is expected to pass overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n<p>Although most lawmakers campaigned before the referendum to stay in the EU, most, including the leader of the opposition Labour Party, say they will vote to uphold the referendum\u2019s result.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the debate, David Davis, secretary of state for exiting the EU, told parliamentarians they could not block the Brexit process.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to leave the\u00a0block is &#8220;a point of return already passed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At the core of this bill lies a very simple question &#8212; do we trust the people or not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Parliament have been given until Wednesday to discuss the proposed legislation that would allow May to trigger the Brexit process.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/31\/508594\/UK-EU-Brexit-Parliament\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK lawmakers have gathered in Parliament to debate whether the British government can trigger Britain\u2019s formal exit from the European Union. A bill authorizing UK Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 of the EU&#8217;s Lisbon Treaty starts its route through Parliament on Tuesday and is expected to pass overwhelmingly. Although most lawmakers campaigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}