Boris Johnson and EU leaders have officially signed the UK-EU Brexit agreement, with the moment being caught on camera in both Brussels and London.
It comes after MPs overwhelmingly voted by 521 to 73 to give the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill, ratifying the deal finally agreed on Christmas Eve, a third reading.
Parliament was recalled to give its ruling on the trade agreement today, more than four years after the matter was put to the public in 2016.
The Bill will now go to the House of Lords, where the debate is expected to continue until around 10.30pm tomorrow.
The EU’s Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel formally signed the post-Brexit trade deal today, before it was flown across the Channel to London in an RAF plane for the prime minister to sign.
The agreement needs approval from the House of Lords and from the EU’s legislature, which is not expected to take up the deal for weeks.(Independent/UK)
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