The House of Lords has given Theresa May an unwanted headache by sending her Article 50 bill back with some unwelcome extras.
An amendment guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens in Britain was backed by peers on Wednesday (1 March) by a comfortable 358 to 256 margin.
The government has insisted that it won’t accept the amendment, so a game of parliamentary ping-pong is likely to take up the first half of March.
But in truth, the machinations over the bill are a side-show. ...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.