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BBC News By Nicola Ford image copyrightReuters From 1 January 2021, we will get our first glimpse of what life will be like once we've left the EU. The UK officially left the EU in January 2020 but a post-Brexit transition period kept most of the existing arrangements in place. This expired on Thursday 31 December and EU rules will no longer apply. So how different will life look and feel for those of us living and working in London? People Freedom of movement is about to end. This means EU citizens will no longer have the automatic right to move to the UK to live and work. And vice versa...

In the four years since Britons voted to cast off a half-century of ties to Europe, many migrants have stopped moving to Britain for work and British firms have sent employees to Paris and Frankfurt, Germany, to set up toeholds on the continent. But for all those preparations, seven days are now all that stand between businesses and an avalanche of new trading obstacles on Jan. 1. “We are going to have to learn how to do this as we go,” said Shane Brennan, CEO of the Cold Chain Federation, a British group representing logistics firms. “Let’s hope it’s for the better in the end, but ...

New obstacles as Britain ends Brexit struggle SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 11:22 AM IST Share Synopsis In the four years since Britons voted to cast off a half-century of ties to Europe, many migrants have stopped moving to Britain for work and British firms have sent employees to Paris and Frankfurt, Germany, to set up toeholds on the continent. But for all those preparations, six days are now all that stand between businesses and an avalanche of new trading obstacles on Jan. 1. Reuters The new trade deal does smooth the flow of goods across British borders. But it leaves financial f...

Dec 26, 2020 LONDON – For weary Brexit negotiators on both sides of the English Channel, a Christmas Eve trade agreement sealed 11 months of painstaking deliberations over Britain’s departure from the European Union, encompassing details as arcane as what species of fish could be caught by each side’s boats in British waters. But for many others — among them bankers, traders, truckers, architects and millions of migrants — Christmas was only the beginning, Day 1 of a high-stakes and unpredictable experiment in how to unstitch a tight web of commercial relations across Europ...