Boris Johnson to visit Brussels this week in last-ditch Brexit talks

tariff-free trade were maintained but lists major set backs with the UK's closest trading partner. The analysis comes after the Prime Minister touted post-Brexit changes to business taxes and regulation.

Brexit was meant to be about trade and fishing rights, Boris Johnson has no bragging rights.The deal the Prime Minister hauled over the line on Christmas Eve, deliberately and theatrically late to deprive the Brexiteers and the opposition time to criticise, is a trading failure.It is difficult to categorise walking out of the world’s biggest trading bloc in order to negotiate your way back in on lesser terms and with more red tape as a roaring success.It is nigh on impossible to portray a

Brexit deal is 'right' for the country but admitted the 'devil is in the detail'. The Prime Minister is trying to persuade Euro- skeptic Tory MPs to back him in an upcoming vote in parliament.

promises the Tories made to the industry appeared to have been broken. Macdonald, who represents the largest quota owners in Scotland, said that while the full details of the deal were to emerge it did not appear to deliver on the industry’s aspirations.

immediately attacked the settlement, saying “there is no deal that will ever make up for what Brexit takes away from us.”On a historic Christmas Eve that will set Scotland and the UK on a different political course from the rest of Europe, Johnson boasted that his “jumbo-sized Canada-style deal” was what the country needs.Johnson said the agreement resolves the European question which has “bedevilled” British politics for generations.But as Sturgeon made plain the end of the Britain’s four

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Boris Johnson is expected to announce the deal on Christmas Eve morning, but talks were continuing in Brussels through the night as the two sides hammered out the final details on fishing.

Robbie Williams has shared the video for his pandemic-themed Christmas single ‘Can’t Stop Christmas’, which sees the singer parodying the British government’s coronavirus response.The visuals feature Williams playing Boris Johnson in the government’s COVID-19 briefings, while the clip also includes a dancing Theresa May, a tribute to Queen‘s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and more.A collaboration with long-time producers Guy Chambers and Richard Flack, the single was initially released last month and is

Prime Minister spoke to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to extend the deadline for negotiations to continue. In a joint statement they agreed to “go the extra mile” in an effort to find a solution after almost a year of negotiations.The statement said: “We had a useful phone call this morning.