Queen gives ‘Royal Assent’ (how kind of her) to Brexit bill, allowing PM Theresa May to trigger Article 50
‘Queen Elizabeth II has given Royal Assent to the government’s European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, clearing the way for Prime Minister Theresa May to start the official process to bring the UK out of the European Union.
The Queen signed the Bill into law after it was approved in the House of Commons and the House of Lords on Monday.
The PM can now decide for herself when to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, initiating the two-year process of extracting the UK from the bloc.
May has signaled the bill will be triggered at the end of March in order to avoid overlaps with next week’s informal meeting between EU countries.’
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