24 dic 2020 año - UK and EU agree post-Brexit trade deal

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The decision ended months of disagreements over fishing rights and future business rules.

* Boris Johnson declared at a Downing Street press conference: "We have taken back control of our laws and our destiny"

* The text of the agreement has yet to be released, but the PM described it as a "good deal for the whole of Europe"

* The UK will leave EU trading rules next Thursday - a year after officially leaving the 27-nation bloc. The trade deal means that the UK and the EU can continue to trade without extra taxes being put on goods

* The two sides have one week to get any deal formally approved in London and Brussels
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer confirmed his party would support the deal in Parliament - although he stressed it was "not the deal the government promised - far from it"

* Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford said a deal was better than no deal, while Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster said "a sensible trade deal... was always the most favourable outcome"

* Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "Brexit is happening against Scotland's will - and there is no deal that will ever make up for what Brexit takes away from us." (BBC News)