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Some are calling it Mary Breck Smith's.

As the UK and EU finally struck a Brexit trade agreement on Thursday, talks on a deal went down to the wire with the UK due Toa leave the single market and customs union at the end of the month.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the face of the pro Brexit campaign, urged Britain to move on from the divisions caused by the 2016 referendum this afternoon that we have completed the biggest trade deal yet.

A deal that will protect jobs across this country deal allow goods, UK goods and components to be sold without tariffs on without quotas in the EU market.

European Commission chief Ursula von Dir Lion described the milestone as bittersweet at the end of a successful negotiations journey.

I normally feel joy, but today I only feel quite satisfaction on frankly speaking relief.

I know this is a difficult day for some on to our friends in the United Kingdom.

I want to say parting is such sweet sorrow.

Without the collective might of the U, the U.

K will stand largely alone and much more reliant on the US when negotiating with China, Russia and India, it will have more autonomy but be poorer, at least in the short term.

Many aspects of Britain's future relationship with the EU remain to be hammered out, possibly over years.

The deal will avert the prospect of both sides imposing widespread import taxes come January 1st, the deal also covers issues such as security, transport and energy.

But even with a deal, businesses will face new red tape and new costs.

Most economists, however, say the alternative of a no deal exit looked much worse.