The Brexit deal is done – but many crucial issues are unresolved

Security, data and the services sector are still in limbo after a thin' agreement struck to avoid disaster

Downing Street's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost, exhausted from months of intense talks, could not hide his glee on Saturday as he hailed the Brexit deal struck between the EU and Brussels as one of the biggest and broadest agreements ever". Its effect, he said, would be to allow the UK to set its own laws again".

There's no more role for the European court of justice, there's no direct effects of EU law, there's no alignment of any kind, and we're out of the single market and out of the customs union, just as the manifesto said we would be," he declared. This should be the beginning of a moment of national renewal for us. All choices are in our hands as a country and it's now up to us to decide how we use them and how we go forward in the future."