UK’s Johnson to describe Brexit as 'moment of change'

UK’s Johnson to describe Brexit as 'moment of change'

Britain to finally leave EU Friday night after 3-and-half years of political turmoil

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON (AA) - Brexit is a “moment of real national renewal and change”, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell the nation on Friday as the U.K. is leaving the EU.

Johnson, who will chair a Cabinet meeting in Sunderland, the first city to declare support for leaving the bloc in 2016 referendum, will address the British nation Friday evening at 10.00 p.m. local time (2200 GMT), only an hour before the official Brexit deadline.

The premier will say Brexit “will set out the historic opportunity we now have to unleash this country’s full potential and level up the entire United Kingdom,” a government statement said.

“Our job as the government – my job – is to bring this country together and take us forward,” he will say, according to the statement.

“And the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning.”

“This is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act,” Johnson is also expected to say.

“It is a moment of real national renewal and change,” he will mark Brexit moment.

He will say: “This is the dawn of a new era in which we no longer accept that your life chances – your family’s life chances – should depend on which part of the country you grow up in.”

“This is the moment when we begin to unite and level up.”

The U.K. will leave the EU Friday evening and a transition period which will end on Dec. 31, 2020 will kick in simultaneously.

Everything in terms of trade will remain the same until the end of this period, however, British politicians will no longer be part of the bloc’s decision-making mechanisms.

The parties will negotiate a trade deal, which Boris Johnson’s government believes could be achieved by the end of the transition period.

The EU has repeatedly said it would be hard and the transition could be extended; however, Johnson government rejected the idea and an article was added in the EU Withdrawal Bill, which has recently been made law, restricting any further extension beyond the end of 2020.

The Brexit moment will see a countdown on a clock projected on Number 10 in Downing Street and many Leave campaigners are expected to join street parties in Parliament Square and in main squares in various cities across the country.

With the deadline reached at 11:00 p.m. (2300 GMT), the marriage between the U.K. and the EU will end after more than four decades.

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