What the papers say: Would the Lords dare block Brexit?

Theresa May’s Brexit timetable is on track after MPs overwhelming backed the Government’s Article 50 bill in the Commons last night. Not everyone is happy with the role that Parliament has played so far in holding ministers’ feet to the fire over Brexit though. In its editorial this morning, the Guardian says MPs failed their first test: ‘Too many MPs genuflected’ to the referendum outcome – a result which the paper describes as one of the worst political decisions in the UK since the second world war. It seems as though the referendum took away Parliament’s power – and not even the ‘heroic efforts’ of Gina Miller in winning her case in the Supreme Court have helped get it back – the paper says. So what next? All is not lost, says the Guardian. ‘Procedural concessions’ have been made by the Government on what kind of say Parliament will now have on the process of Brexit.