Britain's new parliament votes on Johnson's Brexit deal

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Britain's freshly-elected parliament prepared on Friday to move past years of partisan wrangling and initially approve Prime Minister Boris ...

put Johnson's Conservatives in control of parliament and dispelled doubts over whether Britain was to become the first nation to leave the EU.

"A new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach," Johnson told parliament at its inaugural session on Thursday. But the pound fell back to its pre-election levels when Johnson introduced a series of small but potentially consequential changes into the official Withdrawal Agreement Bill. "A Minister of the Crown may not agree ... to an extension of the implementation period," the bill now says.

 

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