Dec 30, 2020
A pro EU protestor stands in parliament square in front of Parliament during the debate today in the House of Commons on the EU (Future Relationship) Bill in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
LONDON (AP) Britain’s House of Commons has voted resoundingly to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.’s years-long Brexit journey.
With just a day to spare, lawmakers voted 521-73 today to approve the agreement sealed between the U.K. government and the EU last week.
It will become British law once is passes through the unelected House of Lords later today and gets formal royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II.
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2020/12/30 20:24 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (left) and European Council President Charles Michel signed a post-Brexit trade deal European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (left) and European Council President Charles Michel signed a post-Brexit trade deal (AP photo) LONDON (AP) On the eve of the U.K.’s seismic economic split from the European Union, British lawmakers were being asked to turn a 1,200-page trade agreement with the bloc into law in a single day on Wednesday. Just after the EU’s top officials formally signed the hard-won agreement in Brussels, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged legislators in the House of Commons to back a deal that he said heralded “a new relationship between Britain and the EU as sovereign equals.”
Dec 30, 2020
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signs the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement today at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. European Union s top officials have formally signed the post-Brexit trade deal sealed with the United Kingdom. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel put pen to paper this morning during a brief ceremony in Brussels (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)
LONDON (AP) On the eve of the U.K.’s seismic economic split from the European Union, British lawmakers were being asked to turn a 1,200-page trade agreement with the bloc into law in a single day today.