Britain's upper house of Parliament voted on Tuesday to give lawmakers more power to reject the final terms of the country's exit from the European Union, ignoring pleas from Prime Minister Theresa May's government not to hamstring their negotiations. Brexit minister David Davis said the government would seek to overturn the changes when the bill is presented for approval to the lower chamber, where May has a slim majority. Britain's Brexit Secretary David Davies hopes to get the vote overturned when it returns to the lower chamber. "I will vote to keep in this amendment," Anna Soubry, a Conservative lawmaker in the lower chamber, told Sky News. But, if the changes made on Tuesday become law, she would not be able to do that without parliamentary approval.

Source: CBC News March 07, 2017 20:48 UTC