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Roger Bootle of @telegraph is mistaken about the European Parliament. We explain why. Thread
The EP is directly elected by the people. Not every legislative body can say that. 1/
It is jointly responsible for passing nearly 90% of new EU law. See p.33 here: epgencms.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload… 2/
It ELECTS the Commission President, who is of the same political hue as largest group in EP. europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headli… 3/
It vets every national nominee for a Commissioner post and has rejected some. europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/Commissio… 4/
It can sack the whole Commission. 5/
The EP must give its consent to any deal with the UK on Article 50. 6/
It must also consent to any long-term trade deal struck with the UK. ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/p… Ends.
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