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Published: 7:56 AM December 30, 2020    Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on the agreement of a post-Brexit trade deal. - Credit: PA Boris Johnson is set to tell MPs that the UK will be the "best friend and ally the EU could have" as politicians are set to vote for his Brexit deal. Parliament will be recalled to give its ruling on the trade agreement reached more than four years after the In/Out referendum in 2016. The EU (Future Relationship) Bil...

SHARE this week, he was surprised by the man’s take on the UKs Christmas Eve trade deal with the EU . While the owner of an imports and exports business which trades with EU countries described himself as “real Remainer”, when news of the deal broke he rushed to the fridge to retrieve a bottle of Champagne he was saving for Christmas Day to toast the news with his wife. “He had done so because he knew what the impact of no deal would have on his business. It was hard to hear somebody ...

Boris Johnson’s EU trade deal has cleared the House of Commons, as the Government seeks to rush approval through Parliament in a single day. After little over four hours’ debate, MPs voted by 521 to 73 to give the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill, ratifying the deal finally agreed on Christmas Eve, a third reading. The Bill now goes to the House of Lords, where the debate is expected to continue until around 10.30pm on Wednesday. If, as expected, it passes the upper chamber, it wil...

30 December 2020 Share The UK-EU post-Brexit deal has been signed into UK law. The EU (Future Relationship) Bill first moved through the House of Commons, where it was passed in a vote split 521 in favour and 73 against, was then moved to the House of Lords, where it was passed without a vote, and the Queen then gave the final approval, Royal Assent. The deal takes effect at 23:00 GMT on 31 December. The moment the vote was announced in the House of Commons (Image: parliament.tv) The UK-EU Tra...

The London stock market slipped this afternoon as news of the Covid-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca gaining approval was overshadowed by millions more people being plunged into the toughest Tier Four lockdown rules. The FTSE 100 closed down by 0.71 per cent or 47 points at 6,556 today despite Boris Johnsons post-Brexit EU trade deal clearing the House of Commons at about 3pm, as the Government seeks to rush approval through Parliament in a single day. London stocks initially r...

European leaders to sign post-Brexit trade deal as British MPs face express debate By David Coffey with RFI LISTEN REUTERS - HENRY NICHOLLS The UK and European Union will sign a mammoth trade pact this Wednesday to put their seal on a long drawn-out Brexit divorce before parting ways definitively at the dawn of 2021. EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will ink the 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement at 0830 GMT, officials in Brussels said, days after it was clinched on C...

Those who vote against the Brexit trade deal are voting for a no-deal Brexit, the Northern Ireland Secretary has said. As DUP MP Sammy Wilson railed against the deal in the House of Commons, describing his party as “disappointed Brexiteers”, Brandon Lewis described his party’s position as “a bit short-sighted”. The House of Commons was recalled on Wednesday to ratify the deal before the end of the year. Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the House of Commons debate on the EU (Future ...

Among its findings, the report concluded that an agreed deal in place is better than no deal and welcomed the agreement being reached in "challenging circumstances". However, it also warned that the agreement does not preserve current trading arrangements and said it is "critical" that the Government is clear in its communications to businesses, traders and communities about the terms of the deal and its implications. MPs on the Committee also urged both the UK and the EU to proceed with implem...

Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will be a "friendly neighbour" to the EU as he said the country is opening a "new chapter" in…

UK lawmakers pass Brexit deal with ample majority 1 minute read London, Dec 30 (efe-epa).- Members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the government’s post-Brexit deal with the European Union. Following a fast-tracked debate, a total of 521 lawmakers in the House of Commons, the majority of whom took part remotely, voted to write the EU (Future Relationship) into UK law just a day before the Brexit transition period is due to come to a close. ...