Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Britain's woke up to a life outside the European Union's orbit on New Year's Day, marking the end of a tempestuous 48 year liaison with the block.

  • Lorries disembarked seamlessly from early ferries arriving in the French port of Calais, and Eurostar's arrived at their destinations.

  • Eurotunnel's director of public affairs, John Keith, believes the roll out of new post Brexit procedures have.

  • So far, being a success has gone really well.

  • Way expected the traffic to carry on flowing as it had yesterday and every other day on.

  • In fact, that's exactly what happened 11 o'clock last night.

  • The first truck rolled through the new procedures Justus, quickly as the truck in front of it had rolled through when there weren't any.

  • Some residents of England's town of Dover, a major port for ferries to Calais.

  • Welcome to the United Kingdom's departure.

  • Have I'm really happy.

  • Brexit has been a long time.

  • Come in.

  • We've been seeing too much of it on the news.

  • Been so political.

  • When Boris has just done it, he's nailed it.

  • We're in a much better place.

  • But others are far more skeptical.

  • Brexit is The UK is most significant geopolitical shift since the loss of the empire, and it's unlikely to be an entirely smooth ride.

  • With the United Kingdom now out of the single market and European Customs Union, there will almost certainly be some disruption at borders on more red tape means more cost for those importing and exporting goods.

  • The drama has also weakened the bonds that bind England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the exit as an amazing moment for this country on spoke of freedom in the U.

  • K's hands.

  • But Johnson, the face of the Brexit campaign, has been short on detail about what he wants to build with Britain's new independence or how to do it while borrowing record amounts.

Britain's woke up to a life outside the European Union's orbit on New Year's Day, marking the end of a tempestuous 48 year liaison with the block.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it