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HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? UNITED KINGDOM

On New Year’s Day the UK will have been fully out of the European Union for a year: out of its political and legal structures, single market and customs union.

This was what Boris Johnson and Michael Gove – who led the Leave campaign – had wanted. No awkward halfway house like Theresa May had negotiated. No Brexit-lite. Out completely. Gone. Brexit well and truly done.

Only with a clean break, they said, could the UK unleash its full potential, and wrestle free from the chains of

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