Top story: separatist parties win most seatsGood morning everyone, Graham Russell here with the final morning briefing of 2017. Speaking from Brussels, the deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, said: “As Catalan president I wish to congratulate people for delivering an indisputable result. For the first time, a constitutionalist party has won a Catalan election.” Much will now depend on what the pro-independence parties agree. Theresa May has made the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, “personally responsible” for how the service performs this winter. For more news: www.theguardian.comSign upThe Guardian Morning Briefing is delivered to thousands of inboxes bright and early every weekday (after the Christmas break).

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2017 06:33 UTC