Vote defeat will lead to 'compressed timetable' - BBC News
Labour's Keir Starmer calls the government defeat over the Brexit bill "humiliating and entirely avoidable", as David Davis says it will have the effect of compressing the timetable on the UK's exit from the EU.
Labour's Keir Starmer has called the Brexit vote, in which the government was defeated over amendment 7 last night, a "humiliating and entirely avoidable defeat".

The shadow Brexit secretary asked for a reassurance that the government will not seek to overturn the decision at report stage during Brexit questions in the Commons.

David Davis said the effect of the vote was to see the powers available under section 9 deferred until after Royal Assent is given to the government's yet to be introduced Withdrawal and Implementation Bill.

He said it would have the effect of compressing the timetable.

The government wants to see a working statute book, as we leave the EU, he said, but as always we take the House of Commons view seriously.

Keir Starmer called on the government to drop amendment 381 - this is the amendment which will put the date of exit on the bill.

Rather than repeat last night's debacle, "drop this gimmick", he said.