LONDON – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has granted royal assent to PrimeMinister Theresa May’s flagship Brexit legislation today.
The step has ended the months of debate over the legislation that willformally end the country’s European Union membership.
The House of Commons speaker John Bercow said the EU withdrawal bill,passed by both houses of parliament last week, had been signed into law bythe monarch.
Meanwhile, the European Union official has said that EU’s default marketaccess for foreign financial firms will not be eased for Britain afterBrexit.