It is almost as if the UK government wants to recreate the atmosphere from the 2019 'Brexit Wars' within the UK parliament.
It is important to stress, however, how vastly different the current #Brexit negotiations are to 2019:
1. The debate about the #InternalMarketBill is about the UK adhering to what it has already agreed, not about what it should agree with the EU.
This why even some ardent Brexiteers oppose it, as it is a question on how the UK stands to the international rule of law.
2. The UK has already left the EU in January 2020, the mandate from the Brexit vote has been discharged. There is neither a short route nor a credible political force in the UK paving the way to reverse the UK's exit from the EU.
Brexit has happened.
3. Although the UK is currently in the transition period where EU laws continue to apply, that transition has a fixed end. There is no (easy) legal route to extension of transition.
Even if it wanted, the UK Parliament could not force an extension of transition beyond December.
4. Finally, Johnson has a clear 80-seats absolute majority in the Commons. This is not about a rag-tag remainer parliament stopping the UK government, this about real unease in a Conservative Party that has fully embraced Brexit.
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