The government of the United Kingdom is now fully legally ready to trigger Article 50 and it is now a matter of days before the Article is triggered. The UK parliament’s House of Commons has passed the Brexit bill prepared by Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and rejected the amendments pushed by the House of Lords. It was clear that if the amendments get defeated in the lower house, then it won’t be challenged again by the Lords. The House of Commons rejected amendments by the House of Lords, calling on the government to protect the status of EU nationals within three months of the start of Brexit talks, by 335 votes to 287. They also dismissed calls for Parliament to have a meaningful vote on any Brexit deal by 331 to 286 votes. The latter is a major victory for the government as well as Brexiteers, who fear that giving a vote to the parliament might weaken the government’s stance to take back the control of immigration in the country.

Theoretically speaking, Mrs. May can trigger the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty now anytime she chooses, however, her government has cleared that it is not going to be triggered until the very last week of the month. The process would involve sending letters to the head of the European Council Donald Tusk, who recently got re-elected despite a bitter opposition from his home country Poland.