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Brexit can begin at last, after the Queen signs the Article 50 Act into law
It's all up to Theresa May now, after the Queen gives royal assent to the Brexit legislation allowing the Government to trigger Article 50

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11:22, 16 MAR 2017Updated11:28, 16 MAR 2017

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Prime Minister Theresa May has been given the power to start Brexit talks after the Queen signed the Article 50 legislation into law.

There were cheers in the House of Commons as Speaker John Bercow told MPs that the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act, which was passed by MPs and peers on Monday, had received Royal Assent.

Mrs May got exactly what she wanted, after the laws were approved without any amendments, giving her a free hand to negotiate the terms of exit with the rest of the EU.

It could still be two years before Brexit actually takes place.
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Mrs May has said she will invoke Article 50, the legal mechanism for withdrawal from the EU, by the end of the month in what will be a "defining moment" for the country.

It will start the clock on a two-year countdown to Britain leaving the EU and launch the country into what are set to be the most complicated negotiations since the Second World War.
Prime Minister Theresa May now has the power to take us out of the EU
Prime Minister Theresa May now has the power to take us out of the EU (Photo: PA Wire)

Britain's future trading relationship with the bloc and any exit bill which we may have to pay are both set to be highly contentious issues in the forthcoming negotiations.
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The law itself was only forced into existence after the Supreme Court ruled Parliament should have a vote on triggering Brexit .

MPs backed the Article 50 Bill itself but the House of Lords laid down two amendments.

The Lords’ demand to guarantee 3million EU citizens living in Britain can stay was voted down by the Commons by 335 votes to 287.

And the Lords’ call for Parliament to be given a veto on the final Brexit deal was defeated by 331 votes to 286. No Tories rebelled.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came under fire from some supporters for agreeing to back the legislation even without amendments. But Labour says it had to respect the result of last year's European Union referendum.

After all the debates in Parliament, royal assent from the Queen was just a formality. However, it is the last stage required for the legislation to become a law and let Brexit begin.

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‘London Bridge is down’: Operational codeword for the Queen’s death leaked
Published time: 16 Mar, 2017 14:55
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‘London Bridge is down’: Operational codeword for the Queen’s death leaked
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. © Ben Stansall / Reuters
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Extensive plans for managing the immediate aftermath of the death of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch have been revealed.

When George VI passed away, the news was delivered with the words “Hyde Park Corner.”
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According to the Guardian, the code words used to announce the passing of Queen Elizabeth II will be “London Bridge is down.”

Sir Christopher Geidt, the Queen’s private secretary and a former diplomat who was given a second knighthood in 2014, will be the first official to deliver the news of her death.

The prime minister will be awoken, if they are not already up, by civil servants who will say “London Bridge is down,” a codeword aimed at keeping switchboards at Buckingham Palace from learning the news.

The Foreign Office Global Response Centre, which is based at an undisclosed address in London, will deliver the news to 15 governments outside the UK where the Queen is head of state, as well as the 35 Commonwealth states where the monarch has been a symbolic leader since 1945, the newspaper reports.

While the BBC has been the first to break the news of royal deaths since the 1930s, the news will on this occasion be delivered as a newsflash to the Press Association, and the global media thereafter.

The death of Queen, who has reigned for more than 63 years, will be reported to the public much faster than it took to announce the death of George VI. The King was found dead at 7:30am on February 6, 1952, but the BBC did not announce his passing until 11:15am.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth. © Dylan Martinez Queen gives Royal Assent to Brexit bill, allowing PM Theresa May to trigger Article 50

The news of the Queen’s death will dominate the headlines for days and months, with news organisations already stacking up stories to run in the aftermath.

The Times, for example, has already racked up stories for 11 days worth of coverage.

Broadcasters ITN and Sky News have reportedly been rehearsing the announcement of the Queen’s death, referring to her with the pseudonym ‘Mrs Robinson,’ and signed contracts with royal experts to speak exclusively on their channels.

One expert told the Guardian: “I am going to be sitting outside the doors of the Abbey on a hugely enlarged trestle table commentating to 300 million Americans about this.”

The BBC will have the ‘radio alert transmission system’ (Rats) activated, a cold-war era alarm designed to set off in case of national emergency.

Britain’s commercial radios will start flashing “obit lights,” which alert DJ’s in the studio to play appropriate songs in the run up to the news being announced.

Chris Price, a BBC producer, wrote for the Huffington Post in 2011: “If you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix) by Sabres of Paradise on daytime Radio 1, turn the TV on.”

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