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UK's Northern Ireland trade law clears parliament's lower house

FILE PHOTO: A general view of stacked shipping containers at Peel Ports Liverpool docks in Liverpool, Britain, October 20, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

Legislation allowing Britain to scrap some of the rules on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland cleared the final stage of its passage through parliament's lower House of Commons on Wednesday and will move to the House of Lords.

Lawmakers voted by 267 to 195 in favour of approving the Northern Ireland Protocol bill, which would unilaterally overturn part of Britain's divorce deal from the EU agreed in 2020, at its third reading.

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