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The UK left the EU at 11pm on 31 January 2020. After the Withdrawal Agreement was ratified, the UK entered a transition period running to the end of 2020.
What is the European Statutory Instruments Committee?
This is a relatively new committee of MPs in the House of Commons, created by the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018, to ‘sift’ through any changes made by ministers to the EU law that will be converted into UK law once we leave the EU.
It is an agreement between the UK and Ireland that allows citizens from either country to travel freely between both without the need for passport checks.