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Brexit: UK and EU can have 'special relationship', says Michael Gove

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   image captionMichael Gove said he has seen "seen old friendships
   crumble" since the Brexit vote

   The UK and EU will be able to enjoy a "special relationship" as a
   result of the post-Brexit trade deal, Cabinet Office Minister Michael
   Gove has said.

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   A 1,246-page document, which has been published on the UK government's
   website, sets out the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU and includes
   about 800 pages of annexes and footnotes.
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   Writing in the Times newspaper, Mr Gove, who was a leading campaigner
   for the Brexit vote in the 2016 referendum, said he "won't deny it's
   been difficult" for many people since then.

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   closest to me have to endure pressures they never anticipated."

   He said he had felt "conscious of a responsibility" to deliver Brexit,
   adding: "I asked people to vote Leave so they could have their voices
   heard."
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The basics

     * A Brexit deal has been agreed, days before a deadline. It means
       that the UK and the EU can continue to trade without extra taxes
       being put on goods - but we don't know all the details yet.
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       between the EU and UK, and to the way they live and work.

   What happens next with Brexit?
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   deal"

   Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who campaigned against Brexit - said
   the deal did not provide adequate protections for jobs, manufacturing,
   financial services or workplace rights and was "not the deal the
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   deal or no deal," he added.

   Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who also campaigned against Brexit,
   told BBC One's Breakfast the post-Brexit trade deal meant more red tape
   "we all feared", "far more bureaucracy" and was a "defeat for those who
   wanted frictionless trade".
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   Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers, who voted
   for Brexit, told BBC Breakfast that "many prime ministers" had returned
   from negotiations Brussels with deals that appear to "do the right
   thing and then closer scrutiny demonstrates that there are not as good
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   She said Tory colleague Bill Cash, of the European Research Group of
   Brexit-supporting Conservative MPs, had reconvened a group of lawyers -
   who had been highly critical of previous Prime Minister Theresa May's
   withdrawal agreement with the EU - to analyse the deal.
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