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Members of the House of Commons won by 521 votes to 73 on Wednesday approved the corresponding ratification law. It is a great triumph for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister campaigned for the deal with many pathos in the House of Commons, as a historic opportunity and a national achievement in equal measure. Now the “old, dry, tired, worn discussions” that for years tormented the country would come to an end. Britain could finally move towards a “great new future”.
It’s the mantra Johnson has been repeating for a long time. Only now can the UK be truly sovereign, with control over laws and waters, on par with the EU, without breaking relations, Johnson emphasizes over and over again.
The law should only go into effect once the House of Lords has voted on it and Queen Elizabeth II has given her formal approval. That was expected in the early hours of Thursday morning. It was considered certain that the law would also find a majority in the second chamber, the House of Lords.
Prime Minister Johnson signed the contract Wednesday afternoon at the government headquarters in London’s Downing Street. “Have I read it? The answer is yes,” Johnson said. EU leaders had already signed the Brexit trade pact this morning. After the head of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the EU Council, Charles Michel, signed the document, he was flown to London on a British Air Force plane.
Scots say no to treaty
In particular, Scotland received strong criticism: Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon criticized in front of the Edinburgh regional parliament against the “lazy Brexit that Scotland has rejected from the start”. British Minister of State Michael Gove accused Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party (SNP) of putting its “narrow-minded” nationalism before the national good of the country.
The Scottish Parliament rejected the Brexit trade pact between the UK and the EU on Wednesday. MEPs voted 92-30 in favor of a resolution that the deal would “seriously harm Scotland’s environmental, economic and social interests”. The vote has no impact on the legislative process in the British Parliament in London.
