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UK MPs approve 'historic' Brexit trade deal with EU Updated Dec 30, 2020 | 21:29 IST UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had urged MPs to back the "historic" Bill, which he says is not "a rupture but a resolution" of the UK's relationship with its European neighbours. UK MPs approve 'historic' Brexit trade deal with EU   |  Photo Credit: PTI London: Members of the UK Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of the Brexit trade deal 521 votes to 73. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had recalled Parliament from its Christmas break to get the Brexit free trade agre...

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 will then go to the Queen for royal assent, with an announcement expected around midnight. That would p...

Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray supported the Brexit agreement in the Commons KEIR Starmer has been accused of betraying his own principles by backing Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. With Labour MPs largely backing the agreement in the Commons, the party has been told by the SNP that it must "share the blame" for any damage done by "failing to provide any opposition or alternative”. While serving as shadow Brexit secretary, Starmer set out six tests which any potential deal must pass for him to support it. However, the SNP are accusing the Labour leader of voting for a...

Boris Johnson Plans to Make His Brexit Deal Law in a Day Bloomberg 12/29/2020 Edward Evans © Bloomberg A U.K. national flag flies beside European Union (EU) flags outside the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Boris Johnson is heading into what may be the most important meal of his life: a dinner with the head of the European Commission in Brussels that could make or break a post-Brexit trade deal. (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. and the European Union will on Wednesday sign the treaty formalizing the post-Brexit trade agreement the two sides re...

H ardline Conservative Brexiteers from the European Research Group have announced their approval of Boris Johnson’s deal, describing it as an agreement which “preserves the UK’s sovereignty." A self-styled “star chamber” of lawyers – led by senior Tory Sir Bill Cash – was assembled by the European Research Group (ERG) to examine the 1,246-page text of the agreement. They concluded today that the agreement “preserves the UK’s sovereignty as a matter of law and fully respects the norms of international sovereign-to-sovereign treaties”. It came after it was revealed that Labo...