direct to your inbox Boris Johnson had said the UK has "taken back control of our money, our laws and our waters" after the Brexit transition period with the European Union came to an end.
At 11pm on December 31, 2020, the UK officially left the single market and customs union. Big Ben chimed to mark the momentous moment when the Prime Minister is understood to have marked the occasion with his family in Downing Street.
A post-Brexit trade deal was agreed between the PM and the EU on December 24, four years after the country voted to leave the EU in the referedum.The UK has now begun a new future outside the European Union's trading structures, which Mr Johnson says offers the chance to "transform our country".He said the decision to leave.
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