The comprehensive trade deal between the UK and the EU that redefines their relationship kicked in on Friday, four-and-a-half years after the British people voted to leave the bloc and almost a year after the kingdom formally stopped being a member
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a central figure for the campaign to leave the EU, said it was an "amazing moment" for a "global Britain" to be free of obligations to Europe.
"We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it," he added.
Post-Brexit Britain, he vowed, would be an "open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trading" country.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
