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Parliamentary votes on Brexit, sometimes referred to as "meaningful votes", were the parliamentary votes under the terms of Section 13 of the United Kingdom's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which requires the government of the United Kingdom to bring forward an amendable parliamentary motion at the end of the Article 50 negotiations ...
[266] That offer was still on the table at the time of the Brexit referendum, but expired when the vote determined that the UK would leave the EU. [ 267 ] The possibility that the UK's smaller constituent countries could vote to remain within the EU but find themselves withdrawn from the EU led to discussion about the risk to the unity of the ...
On 5 September 2017, a number of Conservative MPs backed MP Peter Bone's June Bank Holiday (Creation) Bill in the House of Commons, for the Brexit referendum date to be a UK-wide public holiday. [265] [255] [266] The bill proposes that "June 23 or the subsequent weekday when June 23 falls at a weekend" should serve as a national holiday. [267 ...
English voters punished the Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party in Thursday's elections for local authorities, early results showed. UK's May says local election results show Brexit ...
The British economy is 5% worse off since Brexit, which officially happened about four years ago, as it has stalled trade and investment activity in the country, Goldman Sachs economists said in a ...
Euroscepticism in the UK. UK opinion polling on EU membership; Campaigns for a referendum People's Pledge; Labour for a Referendum; Bloomberg speech; In or Out; 2013–14 EU (Referendum) Bill (unsuccessful) 2014 European Parliament election; 2014 UK Parliament by-elections. Clacton; Heywood and Middleton; Rochester and Strood; 2015 UK general ...
Sir Keir Starmer has claimed a victory in his Brexit reset, striking a fishing deal with the European Union which the government estimates to be worth £360m.. Following negotiations with the EU ...
The inaugural holder was David Davis MP, [4] a longtime Eurosceptic who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU. [9] Davis is a former chairman of the Conservative Party who served in the government of John Major as Minister of State for Europe (1994–97) and in the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron as shadow home secretary .