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More than 40 Conservative MPs are backing an attempt to increase parliamentary scrutiny over further coronavirus restrictions in England.

Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady has tabled an amendment that would see the House of Commons debate and vote on any future such measures.

It comes as MPs prepare to consider government legislation that will keep Covid-19 emergency powers in force.

The Coronavirus Act - which was passed in March - gave ministers emergency powers to respond to the pandemic but they were time-limited and need to be renewed by the House of Commons next week.

The list of MPs who have signed up to back Sir Graham's amendment covers a wide spectrum from those newly elected last year, through to some committee chairs and former ministers.

Senior Tory Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said: "It's disgraceful that really very far-reaching powers, curtailing people's civil liberties, have just been pushed through without a proper debate in Parliament."

The amendment may not end up being debated or put to a vote when MPs consider the legislation next week the number of Tory rebels suggested a real possibility of defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson - whose Commons majority is just under 80 - if it does go to a vote.

This is a week where the twin big issues of the day, the pandemic and Brexit, hit the intricacies of parliamentary process. MPs have to vote on the renewal of emergency powers in the Coronavirus Act while there's a dive into the detail of the controversial Brexit measure, the UK Internal Market Bill, in the Commons.

First the Coronavirus Act, the emergency legislation fast-tracked into law in March.

Whilst the Act does include powers to detain infectious persons and disperse events and gatherings, some of the biggest civil liberties restrictions so far - face mask wearing, requirements to self-isolate, the rule of six, etc - are actually made under the 1984 Public Health Act, so its renewal (or non-renewal) would not directly affect them.

The Coronavirus Act contains a wide range of powers on matters like re-registering retired medical staff, managing large numbers of dead bodies and postponing local elections, allowing courts to use live links, and even loosening legal requirements on the General Synod of the Church of England.

Were its renewal to be blocked those powers would be unwound in an orderly manner over the subsequent days but that looks pretty improbable.

While there may be concerns about the handling of the pandemic, no-one is keen to deploy the nuclear option of blocking renewal, quite yet. But there will be plenty of concerns aired, assurances demanded and changes suggested.

The Commons is to vote on whether to renew coronavirus legislation passed at the start of the pandemic in March, which gives the government sweeping powers to act but has to be extended every six months.

The government is facing growing calls for more parliamentary scrutiny of its Covid policies, amid concerns that recent interventions, such as the "rule of six" limit on social gatherings, the 10pm closing time for pubs and local restrictions in the North East, have been announced with little warning and without being considered by MPs.

A growing number of Tory MPs believe the multiple restrictions are confusing and, in some cases, disproportionate. even though they have often been imposed at the request of local leaders. Tory party talks are continuing ahead of the vote in an attempt to reach a compromise and prevent any rebellion.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma defended the need to act quickly to save lives as cases rise and rejected suggestions that many ministers did not understand the varying rules in force across England - after Boris Johnson apologised for stumbling over them on Monday.

Dozens of Tory MPs are backing an amendment by Sir Graham Brady calling future regulations affecting the whole of England only to be introduced if Parliament has the opportunity to debate and vote on them in advance. However, it is thought unlikely that Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle will select Sir Graham's amendment for debate.

In order to show a completely unbiased perspective, the BBC brought back Bercow, to give his opinion, in the Vine program on Radio 2.

A spectacular failure as speaker.