(VOVworld) – Legislation which will give UK Prime Minister Theresa May the right to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the legal first step for leaving the EU, was passed by a vote of 498 to 114 in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The bill will now pass to the House of Lords, the UK’s upper house.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May at a meeting in Warrington, UK (Photo: VNA)

PM May’s provisional timetable of triggering Article 50 by the end of March, setting in motion two years of negotiations on the terms of Brexit is kept on track by vote.