Brexiteers blast ‘reprehensible’ plan to push laws to block No Deal through the Commons in a single day as John Bercow rules (surprise, surprise) it IS allowed

• Remainers Yvette Cooper and Oliver Letwin want to change the law on No Deal 
• They want to push through laws to mandate a delayed Brexit to avoid No Deal 
• Brexiteer Bill Cash said it would be ‘unconstitutional’ to do it in a single day 
• But John Bercow said it was ‘not unusual’ to pass laws in a day in an emergency
• It can only happen if rebels have a majority in the Commons to set a timetable 
• And they can’t force the pace in the Lords making passing laws a huge challenge

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John Bercow ruled rebel MPs can try to push through laws to block No Deal in a single day today despite Brexiteer fury at the ‘reprehensible’ plot.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper has published draft laws that would oblige the Government to seek a long deal to Brexit next week if there is not a deal by April 10. 

She wants to use Commons time grabbed by Tory rebel Oliver Letwin tomorrow to ram the law through the Commons in a matter of hours.

Veteran Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash complained the idea was ‘unconstitutional’ today and urged the Commons Speaker to block it.

But Mr Bercow told him pushing through laws in a single day was ‘not particularly unusual’ in itself, pointing out the Government does so in an emergency.

The Speaker has repeatedly been accused of helping Remainers to frustrate Brexit and has threatened to block any further votes on Mrs May’s Brexit deal.

John Bercow (pictured today in the Commons) ruled rebel MPs can try to push through laws to block No Deal in a single day today despite Brexiteer fury at the ‘reprehensible’ plot

Labour MP Yvette Cooper (pictured today on Sky News) has published draft laws that would oblige the Government to seek a long deal to Brexit next week if there is not a deal by April 10

The procedure has been used in recent months to pass laws relating to Northern Ireland, which does not currently have functioning devolution.

The rebels will only be able to push through their draft law in a day if they have a majority of MPs on their side. The House of Lords can still block the law even if they pass it in the Commons. 

After Ms Cooper published her two-clause Bill today, Sir Bill, chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, said he had ‘grave concerns’ about the idea of a bill ‘effectively being rammed through in one day’.

Sir Bill said: ‘This is a reprehensible procedure in the context of this vitally important issue of our leaving the European Union. It is unconstitutional.

‘It is inconceivable that we should be presented with a bill which could be rammed through in one day.’

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Mr Bercow said: ‘I rather imagine anyone within a 50-mile radius of this place would be aware of your views on this important matter given the force and frequency with which you have raised them.

‘The House voted to give precedence tomorrow to a business of the House motion which has not yet been tabled. So we await that.

‘Although this is an unusual state of affairs, it is not unknown for a bill to be pushed through the House in one day.

‘Bills being brought forward and taken through their various stages in one day in Government time are not particularly unusual at all.’

Veteran Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash complained the idea was ‘unconstitutional’ today and urged the Commons Speaker to block it

After publishing her Bill today, Ms Cooper warned MPs are playing a ‘dangerous game of brinkmanship’ with the country’s future.

The former Labour minister warned that politicians were ‘running out of time’ after she tabled a new bill that would force Theresa May to ask the EU for another extension to Article 50 if her deal fails to pass first.

It came as rebels seemed to have abandoned hopes of holding a third round of so-called indicative votes on Wednesday, after two previous votes on Brexit alternatives chosen by backbenchers ended in deadlock.

‘We are all running out of time. There is only 10 days until the danger is we crash out with no deal at all,’ Ms Cooper told Sky News.

‘We have been trying to condense into two days what should really have been done by the Prime Minister two years ago.

‘There is too much of a game of brinkmanship going on, everyone just wants to leave this until the final couple of hours and hope that someone else blinks first.

‘That is a really dangerous way to make decisions, it’s a really high-risk game with the future of the country.’

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