⁍ Britain and the EU agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts.

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⁍ Wales will impose a two-week ‘fire-break’ lockdown from Friday to combat an accelerating second wave of COVID-19.

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⁍ Ratings agency Moody’s cut the United Kingdom’s debt rating last week.

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– British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he would step down if a Brexit deal wasn’t reached with the European Union by the end of December. “I will no longer try to hold out for a better deal than the one currently on the table,” Johnson said in a statement, adding that he would set out a clear vision for Britain’s future relations with the EU after it leaves the bloc. In other Brexit news: Johnson said that Britain and the EU had agreed to ramp up trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after weeks of negotiations that had been deadlocked for weeks, Reuters reports. Britain and the EU agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after Johnson said he would walk away from negotiations that had been deadlocked for weeks. Britain and the EU agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would walk away from negotiations that had been deadlocked for weeks. Britain and the EU agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would walk away from negotiations that had been deadlocked for weeks. Britain and the EU agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would walk away from negotiations that had been deadlocked for weeks.