Nicola Sturgeon made a plea for the transition period to be extended. The First Minister, along with Welsh leader Mark Drakeford, told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his timetable for a 31 December exit would be “extraordinarily reckless”.
But Michael Gove, the UK’s Brexit Minister, refused to bend, claiming it would be reckless not to take advantage of the opportunity despite being caught up in a global pandemic and economic crisis.He said: “That’s it.