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Ursula von der Leyen
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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