British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed the agreement on Wednesday that will regulate the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) from January 1.
“By signing this pact, we are fulfilling the sovereign desire of British citizens to live according to their own laws set by their own elected parliament,” Johnson said in a post on the social network Twitter.
The United Kingdom government has ratified the treaty with that signing, while the two legislative chambers hope today to complete the process of transferring the obligations acquired with Brussels to British law.
The House of Commons has already backed the agreement with a comfortable majority – 521 votes in favor and 73 against – and the House of Lords is expected to give its approval in the coming hours.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, had signed the text earlier this morning, which was transferred on a British Air Force plane from Brussels to London for Johnson’s signature.
The provisions of the pact will go into effect once the Brexit transition period ends, tomorrow at 11 p.m. GMT.
The 1,246 pages of the new treaty include commercial exchanges between both sides of the English Channel, cooperation in areas such as security and the rights of the citizens of both areas from 2021.