In the event of parliamentary approval of the Withdrawal Agreement, the Government has to bring forward the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill to give effect to the Brexit deal in domestic law.
The sovereignty of Parliament was a central theme in the EU referendum and a promise was made that Parliament would ‘take back control of our own laws’. Yet, several pieces of Brexit legislation show that control of lawmaking will not rest with Parliament after we leave the EU
In this explainer, we take a look at what’s next on the legislative timetable and the Brexit bills that the Government has promised to introduce to Parliament.
Leaving the European Union requires significant changes to our laws- 40 years of membership of the European Union has inevitably affected many of areas of UK law
When the Government introduced the European Union Withdrawal Bill in 2017 - the landmark Brexit legislation whose aim was to provide legal certainty post Brexit - the devolved administrations were largely sidelined, either willfully or ignorantly.
