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Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 05.02 EST Welcome to the final edition of the Guardian Weekly of a tumultuous year. With just a fortnight to go until the 1 January deadline, the UK and EU remained locked in talks this week to try to get a post-Brexit trade deal over the line. In the big story, Observer political editor Toby Helm and Tom Wall ask how on Earth it has come to this. After that it’s our review of 2020: the year of Covid-19. There have been other seismic events – the Black Lives Matter protests; the election loss of Donald Trump and what may turn out to be a no-deal Brexit. Bu...

I have not taken lightly. there have been a number of discussions with the national security council and the cabinet together with our american and french allies on this project the end of the day it was the right thing to do precisely because we have seen a growing use of chemical weapons and we must say this must stop entities in all our interests for us to ensure the use of chemical weapons stops and in the interest of all our futures to ensure the use of chemical weapons stops. >> toby helm from the observer. there has been no parliamentary approval for reasons of timing or anything else b...