Some Labour MPs have written on Twitter about why they decided to abstain in this afternoon`s vote. Sharon Hodgson, MP for Washington and Sunderland West, said she had always said she would not vote for a form of Brexit that would hurt the people she represents, but she understood that her constituents wanted Britain to leave the EU. After passing its second reading by a sovereign vote of 358 to 234, the withdrawal agreement is on track to complete its adoption by both houses of parliament in time to allow Britain to leave the European Union at the end of January. On the voting lists, it appears that @UKLabour #shadowcabinet members @IanLaveryMP and @jon_trickett did not vote on the #brexit bill, which the party officially rejected, as if MPs had voted at second reading on the government`s withdrawal agreement. With Boris Johnson`s 80-person majority, the bill was passed with a comfortable lead, with 358 votes and 234 against. In the 2016 referendum, the UK voted 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the EU. But the difficulties that followed in getting Brexit through Parliament led to a deadlock in Westminster. Immediately after the announcement of a revised withdrawal agreement on October 17, 2019, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the DUP said they could not support the new agreement. [30] After the ratification by the British Parliament today with the approval of the European Union Withdrawal Act (withdrawal agreement), MEPs on the Constitutional Affairs Committee voted 23 in favour, 3 against and no abstentions in favour of a positive recommendation on the withdrawal agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom. Johnson has insisted that a trade deal with the EU can be reached by the end of the transition period, but critics say the timetable is not realistic. The agreement was revised as part of the Johnson Department renegotiation in 2019. The amendments adjust about 5% of the text.

[22] After the agreement of both chambers on the text of the law, he obtained royal approval on 23 January. Royal Assent is the approval of the monarch to include the bill in an Act of Parliament (Law). This is a good time to talk to another explanatory point about what happens after the Brexit Act is passed. (Spoiler alert – Brexit is not done.) The referendum on 23 June 2016 gave a majority of 51.9% against 48.1% in favour of leaving the European Union. [15] On 15 January 2019, the House of Commons voted with 230 votes against the Brexit withdrawal agreement,[10] the largest vote against the British government in history. [31] The government may survived a vote of confidence the next day. [10] On March 12, 2019, the House of Commons voted 149 votes against the agreement, the fourth-biggest defeat of the government in the history of the House of Commons. [32] A third vote on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, widely expected on 19 March 2019, was rejected by the House of Commons spokesman on 18 March 2019, on the basis of a parliamentary convention of 2 April 1604, which prevented British governments from forcing the House of Commons to vote several times on a subject already voted on by the House of Commons. [34] [35] [36] An abbreviated version of the withdrawal agreement, in which the annex political statement had been withdrawn, consisted of the test of “substantial amendments,” so that a third vote was held on 29 March 2019, but was rejected by 58 votes. [37] The withdrawal law, which would implement the Prime Minister`s Brexit deal with the EU in October, was presented in the Queen`s Speech on Thursday, which set out the government`s priorities for next year.