How democratic is the Brexit Bill?
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Siona Jenkins examines questions of the legitimacy of the Brexit process and the impact on our democracy of the bill currently going through parliament with Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, director of the Queen Mary University school of law in London and the FT's James Blitz and Mure Dickie
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