Copeland MP Trudy Harrison said she was thrilled the Brexit deal had been voted into UK law.
Today’s vote in the House of Commons, which saw it approve the deal by 521 votes to 73, marks the final stage of the Brexit process triggered by the majority vote to leave in the 2016 referendum.
No Conservative MP voted against the Government, but Tories Owen Paterson and John Redwood abstained.
Mrs Harrison said: “Following an intense nine months of negotiations, I am thrilled that a deal which provides the best framework for our relationship with European allies and industrial partners has finally been agreed.
“2021 will be our opportunity to showcase what Global Britain means to the rest of the world: striking trade deals with new markets, reasserting ourselves as a liberal and free trading nation and acting as a force for good in the world.
“I am incredibly proud to be Copeland’s member of Parliament on such a momentous day, and after years of wrangling, we are an independent country again, in control of our borders and in charge of our laws.
“We will now, after 48 years be enabled to decide and follow our own destiny whilst protecting the integrity of our internal market and Northern Ireland’s place within it.
“The Government has succeeded in delivering what the British people voted for both in the referendum and the last election and I look forward to entering the New Year as a fully sovereign nation.”
The EU (Future Relationship) Bill will now pass to the House of Lords for their approval and once both Houses have agreed to the bill, the Queen will be asked to give Royal Assent.
