Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union The European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020[1] (c. 29) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that implements the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union and Euratom in December 2020.

[5][failed verification] Before the agreement comes fully into force, the English version of the treaty needed to be legally checked and tidied up ("scrubbed"), and needed to be adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.

This was criticised by Labour's Valerie Vaz, calling the decision to have limited debate "unacceptable".

[3] Patrick Grady (SNP) tabled an amendment to extend debate.

Tonia Antoniazzi and Helen Hayes resigned from their position on Labour's frontbench to abstain, with Bell Ribeiro-Addy being the only Labour MP to vote against the Bill: A similar amendment to extend the length of debate was put forward by Lord Adonis, which was voted down.