May loses Lords vote on post-Brexit powers for ministers

Theresa May suffered another defeat when peers from all parties defeated the government by 349 votes to 221.Peers and MPs claimed a significant victory on Wednesday when an attempt to give sweeping powers to ministers was thrown out of the Brexit bill as complaints about the power of the Lords to reverse the decisions of the Commons grew louder.In the first of a series of votes on how the powers brought back from Brussels would be limited by the balance between ministers and parliament, peers fr