United Kingdom parliament approves Brexit bill

Newsbeat Political Editor Jonathan Blake answers some of them, below.

But the government did not expressly guarantee residency for European Union citizens in Britain.

May has already promised MPs a vote on the final divorce deal.

There is also considerable anger about the government’s failure to publish its negotiation aims prior to the start of debate.

Following the Supreme Court ruling, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not “frustrate” the process for invoking Article 50 but said he would push for amendments to the legislation that the Government has produced.

The stage was set for the parliamentary showdown last week when the Supreme Court ruled that the PM can not use executive powers to launch the formal Brexit process.

It will be the first Brexit-related vote in the House of Commons. Debbonaire told BI that she was minded to vote against and then “deal with the consequences as they happen”.

“What we do know is that they aren’t interested in controlling our own laws or immigration and are completely out of touch with ordinary working people”. “Democracy is accepting the majority will of the people, not asking them a question and ignoring them if you don’t like the answer”.

Shortly before the divisions took place, the shadow environment secretary Rachael Maskell and shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler quit the shadow Cabinet. The Labour leader and his advisers have been shown internal polling which suggests the issue is hemorrhaging the party votes in its heartlands.

“They made their choice, they want to leave the European Union”, stressed the British Prime Minister on Wednesday.

This could see the Prime Minister having to ask MPs to agree to triggering Article 127 of the EEA Treaty, which gives notice of the UK’s intention to leave. – Once triggered, the Article gives the leaving country two years to negotiate an exit deal.

“The Brexit negotiations will now formally begin and will last for at least two years”.

United Kingdom withdrawal would “explode a bomb” under the EU’s seven-year budget, costing poorer countries as much as 12% of the structural funding they receive from Brussels and putting an extra burden on Germany and France to make up the shortfall. However, for the first time the government has accepted the possibility of a new “court of arbitration” being set up to rule on future trade disputes.

He has confirmed that he wants Britain to leave the single market – that’s the EU’s free trading zone – and he wants what he calls a “bold and ambitious trade agreement” and also a mutually beneficial customs agreement.

‘These 12 objectives amount to one goal: a new, positive and constructive partnership between Britain and the European Union, that works in our mutual interest.