‘Brexit hour marks an amazing moment’ for Britain, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday Britain will be “an open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trading” country once it quits all European Union rules at 11pm GMT (6pm Eastern Time).“This is an amazing moment for this country,” he said in a New Year message. “We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it.”In the broadcast message, Johnson spelt out grounds for hope in the coronavirus crisis now that vaccines are becoming available,…

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