The EU has now lost 66 million people and an economy worth $2.85 trillion, and there is regret that Britain wanted out. Anxious wait for financial servicesWhile the EU tariff- and quota-free trade deal averted potential business chaos in the immediate future, the divorce will play out in many practical ways. But UK lawmaker Chris Hazzard, from the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, said Brexit was far from over. "When all the bluster dies down... it will become depressingly clear that this trade deal is... the beginning of a new trading relationship built on permanent negotiation, disputes and recriminations," he warned. The Daily Telegraph, where Johnson made his name as a Brussels-bashing Europe correspondent, said the government faced a new reality shorn of the EU bogeyman.

Source: News 24 January 01, 2021 05:21 UTC