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The Bill will now go to the Queen for royal assent, with an announcement expected around midnight.

A Remain-backing Labour peer was branded 'contemptible' today after comparing the Brexit deal to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. Lord Adonis faced a backlash after making the extraordinary reference to the Munich agreement - which saw the then-PM let the German dictator annex the Sudetenland in a vain bid to maintain peace - during a debate on the new trade arrangements last night. The former Cabinet minister quoted Winston Churchill's damning assessment of the 1938 agreement as a 'total and unmitigated defeat'. He said the verdict applied 'word for word' to the trade deal - whic...

Leaders sign Brexit deal as UK MPs approve ratification Published on Share Britain and the EU signed a post-Brexit trade deal on Wednesday, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce just hours before the UK brings its half-century European experiment to an end. EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the heads of the European Commission and European Council, smiled at a brief televised ceremony to put their names to the 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement in Brussels. “It has been a long road. It’s time now to put Brexit behind us. Our fu...

THE government must urgently build on the Britain-EU trade deal which “falls far short” of what was promised, the TUC urged yesterday as the agreement was ratified. A 10-point plan was set out by the union body to address shortcomings and “plug the gaps” in the trade deal in order to boost jobs, rights and public interests. The call came as the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill was passed by Parliament, with 521 MPs voting in favour against 73 opposing it at the first hurdle. Its committee stage was cleared unamended, lasting just minutes in the Commons due to a lack of time...

CORRECT: Pound Rally Ensures FTSE 100 Ends 2020 As Laggard Thu, 31st Dec 2020 14:57 (Correcting the performance of global stock indices in 2020.) (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 index edged down in Thursday's shortened New Year's Eve session, ending a dramatic year during which London's key stock measure failed to keep up with global peers. The pound was quoted at USD1.3656 at the London equities close Thursday, up compared to USD1.3593 at the close on Wednesday and up 3.1% since the start of 2020. However, the pound is still around 20% weaker since the 2016 Brexit vote. The FTSE 100 closed d...