Tag: UK departure

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  EU Parliament approves UK departure in an emotional session

  

  Squeezed between an argument over what to call its transport strategy and a debate on the coronavirus, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of Britain's orderly departure from the European Union. It was an anti-climactic way to issue the UK's last rites.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Queen's speech: “priority has always been to secure UK's departure from EU on Oct. 31”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday set out his government's priorities at a parliamentary ceremony full of pomp and pageantry attended by the queen, with Brexit top of the agenda.