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British prime minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Munich last weekend. Will they meet again soon? (Photo: Number 10, Flickr)

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UK's Sunak edges towards closing post-Brexit trade deal

We might be days away from the most painful European divorce, Brexit, to be over — at least on paper.

British prime minister Rishi Sunak faced a grilling in the UK parliament from hardline Brexiteers and the opposition Labour party on Wednesday (22 February), as he aimed to clinch a deal with the EU on the post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.

Sunak in the last few days has been intensively seeking the blessing of the loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and his Cons...

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