30 Dec 2020
Both chambers of Britain’s Houses of Parliament have ratified Boris Johnson’s European Union trade deal, meaning the new treaty will be British law when the country ends the Brexit transition period on December 31st.
Boris Johnson’s EU trade deal passed the final stage late on Wednesday night, having passed back and forth between the Commons and the House of Lords skipping the committee stage altogether in near-record time. While Parliamentary bills, especially major ones, can take weeks and months to get through the scrutiny of the two Houses, the Parliamentary authorities pulled out all the stops to allow today’s Brexit bill to pass all stages in just one sitting day.
EU signs Post-Brexit trade deal with Britain
EU signs Post-Brexit trade deal with Britain
Updated: Dec 31, 2020, 06:00 IST
Hours before UK’s exit, 1,246-page
document sent to
Boris Johnson for his sign
LONDON EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet 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. “It has been a long road. It s time now to put
After years of epic battle in the Palace of Westminster over Britain s exit from the European Union, lawmakers were recalled Wednesday from their holiday