On 31 Friday January 2020 at 23:00 GMT, the United Kingdom left the EU in accordance with the withdrawal agreement that was signed last week. The exit is followed by an 11-month transition period so that both London and Brussels can settle pending economic issues, the most pressing of which are future trade relations. In a pre-recorded address broadcast an hour before Britain’s historic exit from the bloc, Johnson said Brexit is a chance to make Britain a better place. “The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning. For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many, of course, who feel a sense of anxiety and loss . And then there’s a third group, perhaps the biggest, who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end. I understand all those feelings, and our job as the government — my job — is to bring this country together now and take us forward”, Johnson said. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, and President of the… Read full this story
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