MPs Votes Clear First Brexit Hurdle In New Parliament

Britain’s newly-elected parliament on Friday gave its initial backing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit divorce deal with the European Union. Advertisement Following a thumping general election win … Continue reading MPs Votes Clear First Brexit Hurdle In New Parliament

By Solomon Elusoji

Updated December 20, 2019

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows tellers (R-L) Labour Party MP Thangam Debbonaire, Labour Party MP Matt Western, Conservative MP Stuart Andrew and Conservative MP Iain Stewart preparing to deliver the result of the vote on an amendment brought by expelled Conservative MP Oliver Letwin and others to a motion on the vote on the Brexit deal in the House of Commons in London on October 19, 2019. British MPs voted to delay the decision on a Brexit deal by backing an amendment by former Conservative MP Oliver Letwin. PRU / AFP

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows members of parliament filing back into the House of Commons in London/ AFP

Britain’s newly-elected parliament on Friday gave its initial backing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit divorce deal with the European Union.

Following a thumping general election win for Johnson’s Conservatives in last week’s snap general election — called to clear the Brexit impasse — MPs voted by 358 to 234 to clear the Withdrawal Agreement Bill through its first hurdle in the House of Commons.

AFP