Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bill implementing his Brexit deal is the most controversial piece of British legislation this year, if not this decade. His failure to secure its approval this week imperils both Brexit and Mr. Johnson’s government. The bill, supporters say, delivers on the democratic mandate of British voters to leave the European Union. Critics say such deliverance (read into that word what you will) would come at the cost of the political, legal and economic ties that bind the U.K. into, well, a united kingdom.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 24, 2019 22:07 UTC