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A trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom has become law, after British MPs voted overwhelming in favour of it.
The agreement was rushed through the British parliament, after getting the green light from the EU.
It comes as the transition period - which has kept the UK in EU - ends at 11.00pm Irish time on Thursday night, 11 months after Britain left the bloc.
In a statement after the deal cleared the parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: I want to thank my fellow MPs and peers for passing this historic bill and would like to express my gratitude to all of the staff here in parliament and across government who have made today possible.
SCOTTISH Labour have insisted they were acting in the national interest and protecting devolution by voting for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal in the Commons, while simultaneously voting to withhold consent for the agreement in Holyrood. There were angry scenes in the party yesterday morning after Richard Leonard seemingly sent out a press release setting out the party’s position without having first read it. The statement said their MSPs would be voting “to deny legislative consent to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal”. But then in a further release, sent out under Anas Sarwar’s name, that position had evolved. It said Labour MSPs would be opposing consent to express “deep dissatisfaction with the process in symbolic votes”.
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