The government's bid to extract the UK from EU law in time for Brexit has passed its first parliamentary test.

MPs backed the EU Withdrawal Bill by 326 votes to 290 despite critics warning that it represented a "power grab" by ministers.

More than 100 MPs had their say during the two-day second reading debate, including Labour's MP for Coventry North West, Geoffrey Robinson, who was heavily critical of the bill.

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Clearly the bill is full of faults, defects and inadequacies that have got to be put right. The government says to trust us - we'll put them right - and we will bring back and you will see at the end of the process we'll have a bill that will meet the needs of, and guarantee the support of the House. I say no to that."

Conservative Rashem Kotecha, who failed to take the Coventry North West seat said the fact Labour did better than expected in the election may be down to "shy Corbynites."

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"We've had election after election, the UK, Trump Brexit where we've had results people weren't expecting," she said.

"We had shy Tories last time, maybe we had shy Corbynites this time... I don't know."

There were wins for Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West), Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) and Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East).

Geoffrey Robinson, who held onto the Coventry North West seat said he was "puzzled" that he had retained the seat with an increased majority, and "wouldn't have believed" the result five weeks ago.

It's very difficult to predict in the circumstances like the present. I was puzzled, of course I was, but I was puzzled by the Brexit vote. I was amazed by the Trump vote, and other things have amazed me recently.

The full list of candidates for each parliamentary constituency in Coventry and Warwickshire has been released.  

Coventry City Council  tweeted a link to the candidates for the three city seats.

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