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DOUG NICHOLLS welcomes the passing of the EU Withdrawal Bill as a decisive moment in history

THE country’s negotiators are now free from the attempted shackles Remainers were trying to lock them in. With the passing of the EU Withdrawal Bill, It is clear we will be out of the EU on March 29 2019.

Any deal is secondary to that fact because the EU needs us very materially in terms of trade and many other things, far more than we need it. 

Parliament has rejected the wrecking amendments from the unelected House of Lords supporting their unelected friends in the European Commission.

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