LONDON- On Thursday, House of Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said that the British government plans on pushing the legislation required to ratify the Brexit deal through the lower house of parliament by the 9th of January.
Johnson’s Conservatives won by a landslide majority in the elections last week and they are not expecting to face difficulty in passing the legislation.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May tried to get her deal approved by the parliament and failed thrice, finally offering her resignation.
On Friday, lawmakers shall begin debating the legislation and later spend 3 days on it starting on the 7th of January.
This allows an approximate three week period to pass through the House of Lords which is the upper house where scheduling is not controlled by the government. The House of Lords, by convention, does not block policies regarding an election policy programme.
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