Constitution

The Lugano Convention 2007 is an international treaty negotiated by the EU on behalf of its member states, with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

The Act provided the means for the UK parliament to move law-making powers back to the UK from the EU. Read this fact to find out more.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the UK and the place of last resort to appeal judgments made in lower courts.

Proroguing is the term used to describe shutting down Parliament. Read this fact to find out more about what's involved.

Article 24 is a provision of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and is a World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement.

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.

Competences are the areas of policy that governments have control over or responsibility for managing. Read this fact to find out more.

This is a committee of MPs in the House of Commons with responsibility for assessing the importance of draft legislation submitted by the EU.

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.

In October 2019, the UK and the EU finally agreed a Withdrawal Agreement to end UK membership of the EU, under the terms of Article 50.

Read this fact to find out what the backstop means for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the context of the Brexit negotiations