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Premier Johnson: "A new act in our great national drama"
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It is shortly before ten on the evening of January 31, 2020 when Boris Johnson addresses his nation via video, unusually supporting the state.
Outside, on the dark brick facade of 10 Downing Street, a huge countdown clock has just started ticking.
In Whitehall, government buildings are lit up in the national colors of red, white and blue.
Thousands of citizens with flags and beer bottles have gathered on Parliament Square to celebrate their "Independence Day".
In an hour - midnight on the continent - it will finally come true what a little more than half of the British have been longingly waiting for for three and a half years.
For a moment of joy, the mood in London's government district is surprisingly aggressive.
"Tonight we are leaving the European Union," Boris Johnson called out to all those who stayed at home.
This is "an amazing moment of hope".
The Prime Minister says, "The curtain is opening on a new act in our great national drama."
What Johnson does not mention, what the Brexit drunkards on the streets does not care: Just hours earlier, the authorities in York in north-east England reported that the novel corona virus, which is causing so much excitement in Asia, also for the first time in the United Kingdom could be proven.
Two Chinese citizens, one of whom is a student in York, tested positive.
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