Brexit: Early election bill likely to clear Commons as amendments extending franchise not selected – live news
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Cat Smith, the shadow deputy leader of the Commons, opens the debate, moving amendment 2, the one that would change the date of the election from Thursday 12 December to Monday 9 December. She says Labour wants as many people as possible to participate in the election.
Labour fears that students would be less likely to vote on 12 December, because some of them would have gone home at the end of term.
MPs have now moved on to the bill’s committee stage. Lindsay Hoyle, the deputy speaker who is chairing this stage of the proceedings, has just read out the amendments selected. They are the same as those on the provisional list issued earlier. (See 5.19pm.)