over and those many months where you can ask many many questions but before that allow me to give the floor to president for that yes thank you good afternoon so we have finally found an agreement it was a long and winding road but we have got a good deal to show for it it is fair it is a balanced deal and it is the right and responsible thing to do for both sides laid an egg was yes you wanted to trade if you seen. the tears on poor tone the mall and sit it on a car full of if i listen but you know not violence to the best show measure poorly tother is not to please the leeway of a kind of plain usvi heliport asia xacto that the whole pia is that guarded to see how we should acquire don after they do apply your muni

employees randomly for quite believed in the interests of the united kingdom to be reached before the birth of january. riley we were going to leave record it behind. it was. the. power of providence are timid not people and the biggest monster didn't think. all over because. for a new narrative pop purple told me the real problem. market will be fear and remain so the e.u. rules and standards will be respected we have effective tools to react if

fair competition is distorted and impacts our trade secondly. we will continue cooperating with the u.k. in all areas of mutual interest for example in the field of climate change and energy security and transport to gether we still achieve more than we do apart and thirdly we have secured 5 and a half years of full predictability for our fishing communities and strong tools to incentivize to remain so of course this whole debate has always been about sovereignty but we should cut through the sound bites and ask ourselves what sovereignity actually means in the 21st century for me

be it is about being able to seamlessly do work travel study and do business and 27 countries. it is about pooling our strength and speaking to gether in a world full of great powers. and in the time of crisis it is about pulling each other up and stead of trying to get back to your feet alone. and the european union shows how this works in practice and no deal in the world can change reality of gravity in today's economy and today's world we are one of the giants. you have a piece on your own is good often like singapore but i do. not around. no. not one of the little problems and. close leave this part of

the lists that we are well prepared in our menu who really have provided more than half a 1000000 euros want to support. each and to look to the future. of the united kingdom is a certain country but it remains a trusted partner we are longstanding allies we share the same value and interests whether it be the cup $26.00 summit in glasgow or the upcoming u.k. g 7 and italian g 20 presidencies the european union and the united kingdom will stand shoulder to shoulder to deliver on our common global goals so my mom asked a level to small moment. of not.

i'd like to thank our chief negotiator and show bunya to give him the. pretty in 30. 1 to thank david frost and tim beryl for having been tough. but fair negotiating partners and i'm grateful to all our member states and the european parliament for that trust and their support i will now convene the cow college and ladies and gentlemen. at the end of a successful negotiations journey i normally feel joy. but today i only feel quite satisfaction and frankly speaking relief. i know this is a difficult day for some and to our friends in the united kingdom i want to say

parting is such sweet sorrow. but to use a line from t.s. eliot what we call the beginning is all from the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. so to all of your pins i say it is time to leave rex and behind our future is made and europe thank you so much thank you very much the president is now on me to give the floor to negotiate a mission of banja. thank you but on president bush's. aren't great i'm sure you can. after 4 years of connectivity foughten the e.u. you need to be to preserve peace and stability and i don't a violent. to protect the citizens and this is going to market to believe that

a new partnership with the u.k. thank you all thank you lord this is the work of so many women and men here in the commission and the beauty of the ship but i'm the president ordered services and in particular the e.u. task force for the brics it is calm the teenagers and put in addition make a go to team. and in the member states the concert in the european parliament. i don't sure pay tribute or so to you u.k. negotiating team and that you take a shit of david frost and used to produce. his process as engage so many citizens. businesses stick orders and obviously so many journalists. thank you for your patients and for your attention. today

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is. a press conference from brussels and that is it ladies and gentlemen that is the post breaks it trade deal it has been announced that it has been agreed it has to be ratified signed off by both sides we heard there from michel barnier. the chief negotiator for the e.u. saying that e.u. consent will be given in the new year 1st we heard from sort of on the law and the european union commission president who said that it was a good deal she said it was fair balanced responsible from both sides really a sense of relief from her saying finally we're able to leave brics that behind us wanting to continue this special relationship with the u.k. she mentioned the 5 year 5 and a half years of predictability for fishing communities talking about the phasing in there of quote is at the end there she said questioned we're tartly what does sovereignty really mean guy i want to talk about how for her i mean seeing the sli

working and doing business across 27 different countries she did thank the u.k. for being tough but fair negotiation negotiating partner is let's go to bernard smith who is standing by for us in paris but you were listening in there what did you make of what the line had to say. well there was certainly no triumphalism in fact one of the things i underlined says would normally after trade negotiations there are celebrations but she said today i only feel quiet quiet satisfaction and relief and she says to our friends in the u.k. quoting shakespeare she said i want to say the parting is such sweet sorrow the priorities for the european union were to maintain the integrity of the single market of underlaying says they've done that she says our single market will remain will be fair and remain so and we have effective tools to react if fair competition

is distorted one of the main. areas of discussion throughout these negotiations was that there remains a level playing field between the united kingdom and the european union and the mechanisms for making sure that this level playing field is observed they clearly now in this 2000 page document which is yet to be digested by any of everybody outside agreed a mechanism for making sure that they can make sure that they can stick to a level playing field and she said that. together we were still stronger more than we were apart but nevertheless she says that the european union remains one of the giants in world trade and the european and that is the mood she was suggesting the indications she was giving was that britain will be missed but they've negotiated tough and fair negotiations it's

a shame that britain has left the european union that's what live on the land is trying to say wants to has been saying in the past but we have now a new relationship with them and very interesting leigh specifically on fishing which was that last thing that was holding up an agreement or a signing off and then graham and the e.u. says they've got 5 and a half years of full production predictability on what e.u. fishermen will be able to get in british waters we don't quite know what the detail of that is yet but we will be finding it out soon enough. ok thank you that bad smith there across the european side from paris let's go to as a baker who is standing by for us outside downing street said we assume is probably communication between the e.u. and u.k. because we are waiting for boris johnson to speak they didn't speak over top of each other so we are waiting for doris johnson to speak and what have we heard from the u.k. so far. well we've had a statement from the u.k.

and i feel it's a bit of a different tone that the u.k. government is saying that they have achieved everything that they've promised to the british british people cheering the referendum they say that they have taken back control of their money borders laws trade and fishing waters and they said that this is a fantastic news for families and businesses and there will be huge 0 tariffs and 0 quotas they go on to say that they will no longer. say they said that the deal also guarantees that they're no longer in you know all of the e.u. they say we're not bound by e.u. rules and there's no real roles for the european court of justice and the key red lines about returning servitude have been achieved. and again this is that brics it has been done. and it is a fantastic opportunity for the u.k. to achieve trade deals with other countries around the world for us to european union is saying that look they did they didn't want the u.k.

to be used now that they have is a sense of relief for the u.k. for the british government they've really been trying to work hard to get this deal to get to pricks it done that was something that prime minister burress johnson has been campaigning on in this part is prime minister prime ministerial ship is a part of his legacy is a part of who essentially is a supporter titian know and he will very much want to own this and make it seem like is a very good deal although no one has really seen this 2000 page document shift and it still has to be scrutinized by members of parliament but already this morning to papers here that we're campaigning for bricks that have said that this is a victory and i'm sure for mr bush johnson will want to capitalize on that and make this seem like it is the best thing that he has been able to achieve for the united kingdom ok to say with us our said now if a picture. says a 1000 words take a look at this this is boris johnson tweeting about 17 minutes ago the deal is done

. the torrijos looking indeed and then after that he's been tweeting live stream links so people can watch his press conference which we are expecting to happen any minute now if you have just joined us breaks a trade deal has been announced from the european commission side we heard from the european sorry the president of the european commission us live on the line who made the announcement calling it a good deal a fair deal a balanced deal they part of the e.u. the powerhouse as they call it germany let's go live now to dominic cain who is live for us in berlin have we heard anything yet dominic from any german officials . no german ministers have spoken publicly yet regarding this deal or arrived at between the european commission and the

british government but it's worth making the point and reiterating that the lion the president of the european commission is a very senior german politician indeed very privy to the private discussions that merkel the chancellor here would have been having for many years about briggs it remember that or sort of underline used to be a very senior cabinet minister here in germany and so when when a sort of underlined speaks you know that the sorts of thoughts she has and the sorts of thoughts that she makes public are very much those which have been informing the mentality mysteriously here in berlin people will recall that angle americal has always sensed that whilst it is very sad to see the united kingdom exit the european union up amongst in everyone's minds was the interests collectively of the 27 remaining member states in the european union so it is quite likely that she will share the thoughts that we were hearing earlier that that sort of underlying was saying about the sweet sorrow of the passing of the united

kingdom and the european union it's also worth considering some of the words that michel about an year the negotiator for the european union in these negotiations was saying he said while speaking in french that the united kingdom had chosen to renounce the rights and benefits that it had as a member of the european union and could not expect to retain most of those rights and benefits having left the european union that is very much what the german government has always said about what it would want to see happen as a result of whatever deal would emerge from the negotiations and it was clear anglo-american always said didn't want to see a no deal but the most important thing paramount of importance was the collective best interests of the 27 countries and so as i say it is likely that when we get some sort of ministerial comment about what has happened in brussels and london that it will closely mirror the sorts of sentiment that we saw there from and heard

from ursula from the lion and from michelle about any. ok thanks so much for that dominic cain there live for us in berlin well joining us now from london is philip is a financial analyst and former economic advisor to the president of the european commission thank you for your time sir so your commission has said it won't be able to ratify this before the end of the year what does that mean for the implementation of this trade agreement by the december 31 deadline. was going to have to happen it is going to have to be a ploy personally because the european parliament sets deadline of sunday passed. due to be done but obviously deadline was missed and so the as long as you can so the governments are prepared to go ahead it can be applied provisionally and then the european parliament will have to formally ratify it sometime early next year the u.k. parliament is due to meet on the 1st 2 years of december because you need to go to

ratify what are the u.k.'s economic forecasts looking like as a result of this deal but also taking into account the pandemic and the new strain of course that's been found. well obviously in the short term the coronavirus pandemic and all the associated lock downs and so on is the having the biggest harmful impact on the u.k. and indeed the global economy and clearly it's also good news that a chaotic no to approach that has been avoided which would have been extremely costly economically and compounded the kind of the crisis at the same time as it has been expressed. by precedents from the line and others this is a step back from the level of economic integration that the u.k. currently enjoys with the e.u. the u.k. is leading the single market and the customs union and while there may not be

tariffs and quotas on could straight there will be new customers who are in his trade in services in which the u.k. specializes everything from finance and accounting to architecture consultancy that's going to be much less free than before and the free movement of people grossly is ending so in effect it's great news that a chaotic a disaster has been avoided at the same time they're opting for managed disintegration instead and that to be costly. you know i do have an idea of which industries in the u.k. will be better off and away it will be worse off as a result of this agreement i know we're waiting to hear that the details of this apparently 2000 page report but what's your sense of which industries are going to do well and which perhaps not so. well clearly the industries which are purely domestically focused or the ones which are merited x.

or outside of the european union are going to be at least the fact it by this. in terms of the trade in services in which as i said the use pressurize is one big question that remains unanswered is whether the financial sector is going to be able to enjoy something like not quite as good policed and reasonably good access to its e.u. clients and that depends on whether the european commission determines that you can financial regulations are equivalent to its own another question obviously which is relevant for everyone in the tech sector every business that uses data is a continuing determination that the u.k. data privacy regulations are adequate and that made those problems going forward with the u.k. seemingly seeking to seek advantage in technology areas by stripping away some of

those make irrational a bear because the british prime minister passed of a cafe for its lesson and people voted to take back control of their money their borders their laws and their waters and to leave the european union and earlier this year we fulfilled that promise and that we left on january the 31st with that album ready deal since that time we've been getting on with our agenda in acting the points based immigration system that you voted for that will come into force on gender the 1st doing free trade deals with 58 countries around the world and preparing the new relationship with the e.u. and the have been plenty of people who have told us that the challenges of the coded pandemic have made this work impossible and that we should extend the transition period and incur yet more delay and i rejected that approach. precisely because beating conveyed is our number one national priority and i wanted

to end any extra uncertainty and to give this country the best possible chance of bunsen back strongly next year and so i'm very pleased to tell you this afternoon that we have completed the biggest trade deal yet worth 660000000000 pounds a year a comprehensive canada style free trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. a deal that will protect jobs across this country. goods u.k. goods and components to be sold without tariffs and without quotas in the e.u. market a deal which will if anything allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our european friends and yet which achieves something that the people of this country instinctively knew was doable but which they were told was impossible. we've taken back control of our laws and our destiny we've taken back

control of every jot and tittle of regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered from january the 1st we are outside the customs union and outside the single market british laws will be made soley by the british parliament interpreted by u.k. judges judges sitting in u.k. courts and the jurisdiction of the european court of justice will come to an end we will be able to set our own standards to innovate in the way that we want to originate new frameworks for the sectors in which this country leads the world from bio sciences to financial services artificial intelligence and beyond will be able to decide how and where we're going to stimulate new jobs and new hope with free ports new green industrial zones will be able to cherish our

landscape and our environment in the way we choose backing our farmers backing british food and agricultural production and for the 1st time since 1973 we will be an independent coastal state with full control of our waters with the u.k. so share of fish in our waters rising substantially from roughly half today to closer to 2 thirds in 5 and a half years time after which there is no theoretical limit beyond those placed by science or conservation on the quantity of our own fish that we can fish in our waters and to get ready for those for that moment those fishing communities will be helped with a big 100000000 pro pound program to modernize their fleets and the fish processing industry. and i want to stress that although of course the the arguments with our

european friends and partners we're with sometimes fits this is that this is i believe a good deal for the whole of europe and for i for our friends and partners as well because it will not be a bad thing in my view for the e.u. to have a prosperous and dynamic and contented u.k. on your doorstep and it will be a good thing it will be it will drive the jobs and prosperity across the whole continent and i do to be a bad thing if we in the u.k. do things differently or take a different approach to legislation because in say many ways our basic goals are the same and in the context of this giant free trade zone that were jointly creating the stimulus of regulatory competition but i think benefit us both and if one side believes it somehow being unfairly undercut by the

other then subject to independent 3rd party arbitration and provided the measures are proportionate we can either of us decide the sovereign equals to protect our consumers or businesses but this treaty explicitly envisages that such action should only happen infrequently. and the concepts of uniformity and harmonize ation are banished in favor of mutual respect and mutual recognition and free trade and for squaring that circle for finding the philosopher's stone it's enabled us to do this i want to thank a present bought a lion a cinema on the line of the european commission are brilliant negotiators led by lord frost and michel barnier a on the e.u. side as stephanie research as well as all of the louis tim barrel lindsay appleby

many others their work will be available for scrutiny followed by a parliamentary vote i hope on december the 30th. this agreement this deal about will means certainty it means certainty for the aviation industry and the whole is who have suffered so much in the cave in pandemic it means certainty for the police the border forces the security services all those we rely on across europe to keep us all safe i mean certainty for our scientists who would be able to work together and continue to work together on great collective projects because although we want in the u.k. to be a science superpower we also want to be a collaborative science superpower and above all it means certainty for business from financial services to our world leading manufacturers our car industry

a certainty for all those who are working in high skilled jobs and in firms and factories across the whole the whole country because there will be no a palisade of tariffs on january the 1st and they'll be no non-tariff barriers to trade and instead there will be a giant free trade zone of which we will once be a member and at the same time be able to do our own free trade deals as one u.k. whole and entire england northern ireland scotland and wales together and i should stress this deal was done by a huge negotiating team from every part of the u.k. and it will benefit every part of our united kingdom helping to unite level up across the country and so i say again directly to our e.u. friends and partners i think this deal means a new stability and

a new certainty in what has sometimes been a fractious and difficult relationship we will be your friend your ally. your supporter and indeed never let it be forgotten your number one market because although we have left the e.u. this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologically attached to europe not least of course through the 4000000 e.u. nationals who have requested to settle in the u.k. over the last 4 years and who make an enormous contribution to our country and to our lives and i say to all of you at home at the end of this toughest of years that our focus in the weeks ahead is of course on defeating the pandemic and on

be beating coronavirus and rebuilding our economy and delivering jobs across the country and i'm utterly confident that we can and will do it we've by today we vaccinated almost 800000 people and we've also today resolved a question that has bedeviled our politics for decades and it is up to us all together as a new really and truly independent nation to realize the immensity of this moment and to make the most of it happy christmas to you all that's the good news from brussels now for the sprouts actually one of the media let's go to the let's go to the media who i think we've got lawrenceburg . over to you laura. thank you very much trying to start we're yet to see it tex of

this deal which we understand runs to some 2000 pages you've presumably had the benefit of and poring over everywhere dark maybe perhaps no every single word but can you tell the public honestly where did the u.k. give the most ground and where did the country mice the most you think. thanks laura would actually tell you about $500.00 pages and i think it would and it's readily intelligible i think i think the pit would be fair to say that we wanted we wanted to. make sure for instance that. we got access to got complete control over of our fisheries from the get go that says to to say we had annual negotiations on fisheries within the shortest possible delay the e.u. began with i think wanting. a transition period of 14 years we wanted 3

years we've ended up at 5 years 'd i think that was a reasonable a reasonable transition period and i can assure a great fish fanatics in this country we will as a result of this deal be able to catch and eat quite prodigious quantities of extra fish so that's why we're going to have to make these investments in the in the fishing sector thanks very much your let's go to robert best of i.t.v. sort of into a new. prime minister you said all along you want to know kind of a style deal but what you've agreed means that we in the u.k. have to follow e.u. rules on subsidies or tax on workers' rights on the environment or potentially incur the imposition tariffs that's right isn't it i mean we just heard you live on

the line to say that she got her level playing field which you've explicitly rejected all the way through you also just said there would be no non-tariff barriers again that's not right from january the 1st as a result of reading the customs union and michael gove has been warning about is week in week out but there is a ton of new bureaucracy of british businesses lots of new non-tariff barriers this is not to say the deal is a bad deal but you're not selling it correctly are your mis selling. well iran is respectfully disagree with you because there is indeed a clause in the in the deal which is a nothing like has as damaging as it as it was unused in my view neutralizes which says that if either country we feel that the other one is in some way undercutting them or or dumping in in some way then subject to arbitration and provided the measure is proportionate. and that i mean independent arbitration or

arbitration by the european court of justice but such an independent how they can if they really choose put on tariffs to protect their their consumers and and their businesses and to give you an example of the kind of thing where that might occur for instance in the u.k. we want to do go further animal welfare standards and it might be that we do things for instance on how you how you really are pigs banning sokrates and so on that would encourage costs for our farmers and so it might be that they can come in. from elsewhere in the from from the e.u. was was a risk of therefore of undercut as we might under those circumstances consider imposing tariffs i think it highly unlikely but we might consider it it would be have to be subject to arbitration it would have to be proportionate according to

the arbitrator and under no circumstances would we be in any way constrained legally or otherwise by anything that the e.u. deed or chose to do selves nor furthermore would there be any role for the european court of justice and for people at home who've zoned out while i've been talking about this. let me tell you this is a very very long day's march from where we were of a few years ago you remember robert when we were talking about basically having a common rulebook with the e.u. and having dynamic alignment with e.u. law so that the u.k. was forced to to keep step and that has gone from this treaty in so far as the e.u. wanted it and there is no role for the european court of justice or whatever so i think it's i think it's a great treaty and as your point about non-tariff barriers yes i think it's

important to stress. what i'm talking about is barriers on the grounds of you know your plugs work won't work in our in our country that for their band or whatever. that kind of that kind of technical barriers to trade there's a lot in this treaty to try to reduce all that kind of thing make sure that doesn't that doesn't that's a good thing that's a good thing for businesses and consumers in that sense it's a great free trade deal but i must stress to people getting ready for january the 1st that you know there will be change so people will need to get on the the go but u.k. where. site exporters will need a or reforms and and everything else people should be aware of the change that is coming but there's also an opportunity because for british exporters now the whole world it will be treated the same for export purposes and i think that will actually galvanize our exporters to think much more positively dynamically about

the the opportunities that they have so i must respectfully disagree with both the points that. you made this is a this is a jumbo canada style free trade deal and exactly the kind that i think this country needs and it and as i say i believe it resolves a longstanding and very very difficult problem. people said you couldn't be part of the of a free trade zone with the e.u. without being obliged to follow you laws if you remember i think there was a i think we were told we couldn't have our cake and eat it in that kind of thing i'm not going to i'm not going to claim that this is a cake east treaty rabbit but. you know it's it's because that it is i believe. what the country needs at this time and the right way forward for it for the u.k. let's go to san coats of sky. i mean so you say this is an unprecedented deal

example your red lines and promises to the country can people trust that life will be better as a result of this deal and that there won't be any destruction even in the short term and can you guarantee the government went up we end up reopening element of the new relationship in the years to come when i mean really good really good questions i mean short term yes as i said just now there are things we have to get right process that the process is that maybe people have to to do that they need to be aware of and i'm going to that point really is worth reinforcing i do believe that the freedoms that this treaty winds as basically a new independence from the e.u. are worth having but you know and so the free ports free trade deals being able to . do as i say to look after. you're a livestock differently improving your your your your landscape in

a different way doing all sorts of things differently regulating financial services differently chemicals also things where we want we may want to do things differently and and better but i would just say to people watching this in the i'm sorry for disturbing cars 3 by the way to say to people watching this i would say it's one thing to get freedom from winning freedom is a fantastic thing and that this is an important element of what we've done but it's how we use it how we make the most of it that's what's going to matter in the in the in the months and years to come i have no doubt that we can do fantastic things with this treaty if we with this new relationship which i think will be stable and prosperous for for both sides let's go to the top and you can done of times radio. good afternoon promise and thank you a couple of quick questions if you don't mind every deal means both sides have to

compromise do you accept that you have to compromise throughout the last 11 months to keep up the last 11 days from perhaps your earlier slightly absoluteness positions perhaps that was a negotiating ploy compromise is not a dirty word do you agree with that and secondly can you address service ins because i haven't heard you say much about 80 percent of course in the u.k. economy you say some british companies would do more trade with the e.u. because this deal will the british service accession to financial services sector will they be to do more trade or less trade well there's a there's a 1st of all on the compromise point a compromise isn't a dirty word and unquestionably there are things that we've done to help our friends and partners to move things forward you know i mentioned i think to laura where we got to on fish we know we started out wanting a very short. transition period. of 3 years they wanted

a much longer one of 14 years we've we've compromised on that the 5 and a half and on on you know. so the surge the vital services sector yes of course they will they've they feature in this in this deal quite quite rightly there's a there's a some good language about equivalents for financial services perhaps not as much as as we would have liked but it is nonetheless you know going to enable a dynamic city of london to get on and prosper as never before the some good stuff about. barristers listers lawyers be able to practice around the european union we will be able to continue to have masse. we've been growing economic interpenetration without the need for.

what i've always talked about this this blew your pool of law this and i as i say this is this is something that i think can benefit people on both sides of the channel be a healthy dynamic productive happy stable relationship that's what we're aiming for let's go to george park of the f.t. a prime minister. in the change that will happen at the border in any event on january the 1st i just wanted there was anything in this deal where the 2 sides agreed to introduce some sort of flexibility in the courts to make sure we don't have chaos and over in cali the 1st or 2nd more general point you nice to be a reporter in brussels we've covered the so psychodrama of british e.u. relations for a number of decades not just for our set a date of the war is over i just wanted if you saw it in those terms. no i think the 1st one on on. on the border measures to. there are all sorts of things in the

treaty that you will recognize about trusted trading schemes and special measures on the santry infighter sanitary recognition and steps to. make sure that you know things flow as smoothly as we possibly can do again i stress that there will be things that people have to do look i mean the one of the great the e.u. was a an external was and is an extraordinary concept and it was born out of the agony of the of the 2nd world war. founded by. idealistic people in france and germany and italy who never wanted the countries to go to war with each other again and other countries belgium holland others and in many ways it's an it was and is a very noble enterprise so i you know i don't recognize that the kind of language that you that you talk of i think that the ukase own relationship with it was

always difficult we always found some of the the language about ever closer union the idea of this political union this very dense idea of this ideology of endless integration we found quite hard george and i think you know as a fellow brussels reporter you remember that there was there was quite a lot of friction involved i think that what we've got here is the basis of a new long term friendship and partnership that basically stabilizes that relationship and insofar as the u.k. needs to be and always must be a great european power always must be a great great european power where the outside the main body. of the e.u. but where there is a friend and as a supporter. as a flying buttress if you like to make sure as we have done so many times in the

last. couple of 100 years that we're able to lend our voice when it's when it's needed and to be of value to our european friends and partners in a strategic way and that's what the u.k. will obviously continue to do but i think the very dense program of integration wasn't right for the for the u.k. and that's why it was right to take back control in the way that we that we have and i think that this deal this deal expresses what the people of the country voted for in 2016 and i think there was a wisdom in what they decided and i think that will be able to go forward on this basis let's go to gordon rayner of the telegraph thank you prime minister merry christmas such laro can i just ask probably half the people watching this right now would have voted remain in a referendum in 2016 g. how a particular message for them do you know people today outreaching that this is

a detail that it's not what they what they wanted they would rather stay then what's your message today and just secondly could i also ask you we have more to get stay on that you mentioned covered earlier when you were out another national lockdown after christmas. gordon thanks and i think my message to everybody on both sides of the divide is i wrote a bad argument in 26 years i rethink we it's now a long time behind us and i think most people that i talked to whichever way they were inclined to vote back then just want it settled and want us to move on and i think this gives us the the platform the foundation for a really prosperous new relationship and i would be very excited. by this this deal this european question's been going on for decades exactly what relationship we should have and this is a great new free trade deal. with

a trading relationship and partnership that i think will bring prosperity to to both sides of the cho and. on. coronavirus and the struggle there. obviously we face a very considerable a new pressures particularly from the the new variant in the speed with which that's been that's been spreading we believe that we're going to have to get through this tough period now with as i say as i said many times. very tough restrictions with tough tearing and you've seen what's been announced over the last day or so about that and much as i regret that i do think it is necessary for us to grip this virus now to stop it running out of control in in january because we need

to buy ourselves time to get the vaccine into as many arms of the elderly and vulnerable as we can and that is the that is the real way in which we will defeat the the virus so it's tough tearing community testing and and rolling out the vaccine in a way that we're going to continue with with that approach and. i know that. it's been very very tough over the last few weeks and i must tell people it will continue to be difficult. not least a baby basically because of the the speed with which the new variant is is spreading but the vaccine is going into people's arms and there really is and now i think hope the certainty that we will have it we will have it defeated as i say by by the spring all that certainly what the scientists still believe in they're still they're still confident of that so thanks very much gordon lets go to harry

cole of the sun. thank prime minister can you give us some more details about the new security arrangements that the are we going to be as safe next week in your under your new security partnership as we are today given its brussels assange. live databases and if you got this all up how you are recommend we celebrate they've me next week well. i leave of your you know your manner of celebration entirely to you and to individual taste i would i would want to mean we've come down quite enough bossing people around recommending this or that over the last. 10 months or so but on on security and police cooperation i'm you know absecon from this is a deal that protects our police cooperation protects our ability to catch criminals and to share intelligence across the european continent in the way that

we have done for many years so. i don't think people should have fears on that score or indeed only any score 'd let's get ahead astute of the guardian and i promise that it michel barnier said today that we decided to meet the erasmus exchange scheme which sent thousands of students to e.u. countries every year i want to what you say to young people in trade as they will continue to discover the constant on our doorstep by living never studying or working they are being taken away from them and secondly do you have a message for kids star but you will have to decide in the coming hours and days how to wit labor m.p.'s what it whether they should support you do you. write the will economy on on iran's most it was a tough decision the issue really was that. as you know the u.k. is a massive net contributor to the continent's higher education economy because over

the last decades we've had so many nationals which we've it's been a wonderful thing but our arrangements basically mean financially the u.k. kes checa. more or less loses out on the on the deal erasmus was also extremely expensive so what we're doing is producing a. u.k. . scheme for students to go around the world and it will be called the cheering scheme and it will search so so students will have the opportunity to dr alan cherry so the students have the opportunity not just to go to european universities but to go to the best universities in the world who want our young people to experience the immense intellectual stimulation of. europe but also of the whole world and as for i think you're asked about which way should the opposition vote on this but it's obvious i have the opposition to vote it's

excellent deal and and i would strongly encourage everybody to do the same thank you very much everybody happy christmas to you all thank you. that was of course british prime minister boris johnson there speaking from downing street about the post of brakes a trade deal which has been reached just to recap what he had to say. he talks about this trade deal being worth 660000000000 pounds every year a free trade deal with the e.u. he called it a jumbo deal a canada style free trade deal. calling it a good deal and surprisingly saying that it will go to parliament to be voted on on december 30th a real theme of certainty of control all of this excess coming from the prime minister i believe we have said big standing by for us in london yes there he is in downing street

a lot to take him from what boris johnson had to say just break it down for us if you can osip. will promise to burst on some time in very trying for and victorious taking a very different tone from the e.u. commission chief 1st love and then no this is because he's speaking to he's bricks it supports the speaking to the conservative party speaking to the country that have been waiting for him to deliver bricks at night this has been going on since 201652 percent of the country over 17000000 people voted to leave the e.u. not he called it an accident deal he also said that we can now take control of our destiny he said goods will be able to trade with tariffs and without coaches but he also mentioned the european court of justice he said the british lost movie solely decided by british parliament and interpreted by british courts he's talked

about the person holding on to their own standards and again he mentioned this canada style deal but no one's really seen journalist and the politicians have an old opposition have yet to see the details and it could be that once they see this and they get down to the details of this deal they may start objective it's ok now to give this soundbites and have this triumphalism and and sign very joyous about leaving the e.u. but when people start looking at those details they may be some objections as for fishing he actually acknowledged that the had made some compromises and one of those compromises was in regards to the fishery industry the fishing industry now he said that the u.k. share of fishing in british waters will increase from hot to 2 thirds in 5 and a half years' time he said the e.u. had wanted that to happen in 14 years but that u.k. had compromised to 5 and a half.