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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a news conference in response to the ongoing situation with the Covid-19 pandemic, at 10 Downing Street, London
BORIS JOHNSON warned yesterday that agreeing a post-Brexit trade deal was “looking difficult” after European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier said that the talks have “just a few hours” left to run.
The Prime Minister said that it was for the EU to compromise to avoid the transition period ending on December 31 without a deal.
He reiterated that “no sensible government” could agree to a treaty that does not give the country control of its own laws and fishing waters, referring to two major sticking points in the negotiations.
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT