LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliament’s upper chamber yesterday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britain’s EU exit treaty – a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden.
The Internal Market Bill is designed to protect trade between Britain’s four nations after Brexit. It contains clauses ministers say are needed to protect Northern Ireland’s delicate status as part of the United Kingdom, but would also break international law in a “specific and limited” way.
UK PM Johnson defeated in parliament on treaty-breaking Brexit laws
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