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Consumers are set to benefit from the government’s plan to slash tariffs on goods from the United States and other countries after the UK comes out of the transition period in December 2020.

Two Remain-backing MPs who had the Conservative Party whip removed for voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit have been nominated for peerages.

A poll has revealed that Nigel Farage is the second-most popular party leader, and nearly twice as popular as Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn.

The United Kingdom has retaken her independent seat at the World Trade Organization after formerly being represented by the European Union.

Steve “stop Brexit” Bray has pledged to continue his protest outside of the Houses of Parliament until the UK rejoins the EU.

Cabinet minister Michael Gove has backed comments by Boris Johnson’s Treasury secretary that the UK does not need a deal with the EU to trade with it.

Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has told the UK to “tone down” its “nationalistic rhetoric” during forthcoming negotiations with the European Union.

The EU’s chief negotiator on a UK trade agreement, Michel Barnier, has said there will be no trade deal without EU access to British territorial fishing waters.

Boris Johnson has called for a Canada-style FTA with the EU and said that he would rather accept tariffs than restrictive regulations.

The United Kingdom has left the European Union.

Both victorious Brexiteers and mournful Remainers have come to London to mark the day the UK leaves the EU.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Brexit is a “shock” and a “historic wake-up call” for the whole of the EU.

Nigel Farage has hailed today as a “massive victory for the people against the establishment” as the UK prepares to leave the EU at 11 pm.

Brexit Party MEPs have left the European Union’s parliament for the last time, carrying the Union Jack “home”.

Tonight at 11 pm, the UK officially leaves the European Union. Officially, as the UK is still wedded to many of the EU’s institutions during the transition period until December 31st, 2020.

Only three in ten Remain voters have reached the phase “acceptance” in the five stages of Brexit grief, according to a poll by YouGov.

A Finnish Eurosceptic MEP has said that the UK will “triumph” outside of the EU and said the next decade will see the revival of national sovereignty in Europe.

Senior Member of European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has made the extraordinary assessment that the lessons to be learnt from Brexit is for Brussels to push for ‘More Europe’ and to take away even more democracy from nation-states.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has expressed his shock that the Conservative government has decided to allow Chinese-owned Huawei involvement in British 5G networks, despite warnings from intelligence allies Australia and the United States.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called Brexit a “victory for grassroots campaigning” and British democracy, adding that he hoped other European nations would take Britain’s lead and leave the undemocratic EU.

Tony Abbott has said conservative governments should do more to help working, middle-class women to have more children because the current birth-rate for that demographic is a “real problem”.

The Migration Advisory Committee has recommended against a full replacement of EU free movement to a full points-based immigration system post-Brexit and said that the salary cap should be lowered by £4,000 — moves that Migration Watch UK warned would result in the UK losing control of immigration.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that the UK must “come to terms with the fact it’s now a small country”, and said that the EU would leave a seat open for Britain in case Brexit is a failure.

Companies need to moderate office chat to stop men talking about sports because such conservations exclude women and are a “gateway” to “laddish behaviour”, the head of a professional institution said on the BBC.

Ofcom has announced that it will not probe further into comedienne Jo Brand suggesting people throw battery acid at politicians during a radio programme.

Mark Francois MP announced that his final attempts to persuade the House of Commons authority to bong Big Ben on Brexit day have been unsuccessful.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised leading Remainers for saying they would not accept the commemorative 50p coins marking the UK leaving the EU.

Labour’s Sadiq Khan will be offering “emotional support services” to “European Londoners” on January 31st — Brexit Day.

Senior officials in the British government are urging the prime minister to prioritise signing a U.S. trade deal after Brexit.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has warned that it is “increasingly likely” there will be a UK case of coronavirus, after the number of people being tested for the Chinese-origin virus rises from four to 14.

The European Commission has drawn up a list of 40 different types of financial services it could threaten to block from the EU’s market if the UK diverges from Brussels’ regulations after Brexit. The Queen gave Royal Assent to the

Tests are being carried out on four people in Scotland for suspected cases of the Coronavirus which originates from China.

The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020.

Reported plans that the prime minister is to lift the £30,000 salary cap for immigrants would “unlock the gate to an unlimited inflow of migrants from all over the world” unless the government imposes a sensible immigration cap, a think tank has warned.

The European Union is reportedly planning to offer the UK a trade deal with worse terms than it signed with countries such as Japan or Canada.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has repeated the Conservative government’s position that the UK will diverge from EU regulations after the Brexit transition period.