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‘Deal is done’: UK, EU clinch post-Brexit free trade agreement

TIL Desk/World/London/ Britain clinched a historic deal with the European Union on Thursday as both sides managed to thrash out a post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) just days before the December 31 deadline.

Thousands of pages of legal text accompanies the deal, with details of the agreement set to emerge in the course of the next few days, including the final ratification of the FTA by Parliaments on both sides.

“The deal is done,” was the message posted on social media alongside an image of a jubilant Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his arms in the air moments after news of a post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) hit the headlines.

He soon took to the podium at 10 Downing Street to declare that he had kept his promise to the British electorate, who had voted for Brexit in a referendum in June 2016 and then handed him a thumping majority in December 2019 on a manifesto that centred around getting Brexit done.

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