03:29Londoners shared their reactions to the UK and the EU's post-Brexit trade agreement in London on Friday, with the overall sentiment being mixed.
"I sincerely hope it won't have too much of an adverse effect although I feel that it will, and I think we will see a return to the Troubles," worried one Londoner in Hyde Park, adding that the situation was 'dreadful.'
Another local said he thought the deal "takes the sting out of the Northern Ireland protocol because the arrangements to create regulatory divergences across the Irish Sea no longer apply with quite the same force."
One local woman was sanguine about the agreement, saying that she didn't "particularly want to leave EU" but that she "wasn't really worried that it wouldn't work."
On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the agreement, which he described as a 'comprehensive, Canada-style free trade deal,' had been reached.
The agreement still needs to be approved by the 27 remaining EU states and the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1, with the European Parliament set to vote on it in January 2021.
UK: 'Dreadful' - Londoners divided on post-Brexit EU trade deal
Londoners shared their reactions to the UK and the EU's post-Brexit trade agreement in London on Friday, with the overall sentiment being mixed.
"I sincerely hope it won't have too much of an adverse effect although I feel that it will, and I think we will see a return to the Troubles," worried one Londoner in Hyde Park, adding that the situation was 'dreadful.'
Another local said he thought the deal "takes the sting out of the Northern Ireland protocol because the arrangements to create regulatory divergences across the Irish Sea no longer apply with quite the same force."
One local woman was sanguine about the agreement, saying that she didn't "particularly want to leave EU" but that she "wasn't really worried that it wouldn't work."
On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the agreement, which he described as a 'comprehensive, Canada-style free trade deal,' had been reached.
The agreement still needs to be approved by the 27 remaining EU states and the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1, with the European Parliament set to vote on it in January 2021.
Londoners shared their reactions to the UK and the EU's post-Brexit trade agreement in London on Friday, with the overall sentiment being mixed.
"I sincerely hope it won't have too much of an adverse effect although I feel that it will, and I think we will see a return to the Troubles," worried one Londoner in Hyde Park, adding that the situation was 'dreadful.'
Another local said he thought the deal "takes the sting out of the Northern Ireland protocol because the arrangements to create regulatory divergences across the Irish Sea no longer apply with quite the same force."
One local woman was sanguine about the agreement, saying that she didn't "particularly want to leave EU" but that she "wasn't really worried that it wouldn't work."
On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the agreement, which he described as a 'comprehensive, Canada-style free trade deal,' had been reached.
The agreement still needs to be approved by the 27 remaining EU states and the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1, with the European Parliament set to vote on it in January 2021.