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THE Labour Party and Britain’s communists condemned the EU’s decision to launch legal action over Brexit legislation today and warned both sides that time is running out to strike a trade deal.

The dispute over the Tories’ Internal Market Bill, which overrides parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (WA), stepped up a notch after Brussels announced that it has launched legal action over the legislation.

It comes just two weeks before the deadline that Mr Johnson’s government set for agreeing a free-trade deal with the EU.

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