The new British Parliament, which emerged from the 12 December general election and is largely dominated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Tories, approved the draft agreement for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU by a large majority on Friday 20 December. The text was adopted by 358 votes to 234, a majority of 124 in favour of the British leader.
It took four attempts to cross this threshold, after the first very chaotic votes in the British Parliament in the spring under Theresa May’s...