The rebel bill may not become law before Parliament is prorogued on Monday. As of right now the Lords is debating a business motion designed to allow it to fast-track approval of the bill in a similar way to its treatment in the Commons. However, Brexiteer Lords have so far tabled 102 amendments to the business motion. The way the Lords operates compels it to debate every one of the amendments and to vote on each one twice. The rule of thumb is to allow one hour per amendment. The rules also permit continuous sitting until the agenda is cleared, but that means they’re looking at more than 100 hours of continuous debate. That takes them well into Saturday evening, and at that point they haven’t even begun debating the anti no deal bill.
If the Brexiteers in the Lords have themselves well organised and they’ve got enough Red Bull, then they will stall the bill until it is forcibly killed off by prorogation.
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