The U.K. is due to leave the EU in 10 days, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been stymied twice in 48 hours in his attempt to get Parliament to approve his divorce deal. The government plans to publish its Brexit legislation, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, on Monday evening, with the first round of debating and voting in the House of Commons on Tuesday. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...Opposition lawmakers also plan to seek amendments that could substantially alter the bill, for example by adding a requirement that the Brexit deal be put to voters in a new referendum. Many British lawmakers fear a no-deal Brexit will cause gridlock at ports, shortages of some food and medicines and a deep recession. Leaders of the 27 other EU countries — who must agree unanimously — are weary and frustrated at Britain’s interminable Brexit melodrama.

Source: thestar October 21, 2019 17:15 UTC