Can Yvette Cooper and Oliver Letwin’s bill really stop no-deal Brexit?

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 11: Labour MP Yvette Cooper walks through Parliament to The Centre For European Reform in Westminster on March 11, 2019 in London, England. Mp's are due to get a second meaningful vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal tomorrow. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

With ten days before the end of the United Kingdom’s Article 50 extension and parliament deadlocked, can MPs stop a no-deal Brexit? That’s the hope of Labour’s Yvette Cooper and the Tory grandee Oliver Letwin, who have tabled legislation that would require Theresa May to request a further extension beyond 12 April.

The bill, which will be laid on Thursday, would compel the Prime Minister to propose an Article 50 extension – for a period of her choosing – that would be amended, debated and voted on by MPs. Were an extension of a different length proposed by the EU, the Commons would repeat the process.