Boris Johnson is
"confident"
that the UK will be able to
"prosper"
without a free trade agreement with the European Union.
After the institutional exit from the EU on January 31, the country will completely leave the single market at the end of the year, after an eleven-month transition period.
As bilateral negotiations over the future relationship have entered a home stretch, the prime minister, largely behind Brexit, is doing a good job.
The dismissal of his “gray eminence”, Dominic Cummings, architect of the 2016 referendum campaign, would not change his determination.
Johnson intends to embody the hard line to the end against the Europeans.
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Still, its negotiating position has clearly weakened.
The project of a "Global Britain", which would span Europe to trade with the whole world, remains to be built.
The
"magnificent"
trade agreement promised by Donald Trump, and hoped for by London before the presidential election
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