Our friends in EU, free to do trade deals around the world- Johnson

Terming the availability of two vaccines and the UK move out of the EU’s embrace  – and the Brexit transition period ends – as an “amazing moment,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he remained confident about the country and the future as it enters 2021. Johnson said: “(As) as the sun rises on 2021 we have the certainty of those vaccines. Pioneered in a UK that is also free to do things differently, and if necessary better, than our friends in the EU. Free to do trade deals around the world”.

“This is an amazing moment for this country. We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it. Leading both the G7 and the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow, And an open, generous, outward looking, internationalist and free trading global Britain, that campaigns for 12 years of quality education for every girl in the world”. Johnson said.  Johnson, however, insisted that the UK is still a way off from that situation and warned that there are “tough weeks and months ahead”.

There will be plenty who will be only too happy to say goodbye to the grimness of 2020.

But this was also the year when we rediscovered a spirit of togetherness, of community.

In 2021 we have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it. Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/gDRXe2SuCb

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 31, 2020

Meanwhile, the Brexit agreement reached with Brussels last week received royal assent and became law. Several aspects of everyday life are likely to change as new post-Brexit realities unfold. This will include higher prices in supermarkets and changes to Britons visiting EU member-states. There will be a 90-day limit to their stay in any 180-day period, using queues for non-EU citizens at airports, and being asked by immigration officials to show return tickets and funds for their stay.