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Boris Johnson has urged Eurosceptic 'Tories' to vote in favor of the trade deal with the EU at the special session of the House of Commons scheduled for December 30.

"This agreement fulfills all the commitments of our electoral manifesto and is what the people want us to do," declared the 'premier' in a message addressed to the 70 members of the so-called European Research Group (ERG), supporters of 'Brexit Lasted'.

The 1,250-page agreement was made public on Saturday, and ERG members have convened their particular "star chamber" of advisers to examine the text.

The internal criticism received to date by Johnson focuses mainly on his concessions on the fisheries question, but

the issue that really mattered to the Eurosceptics was that of the recovery of "sovereignty"

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The British Government is selling the idea that it is an agreement similar to or superior to the one signed by the EU with Canada, which guarantees the legal independence of the United Kingdom and avoids "alignment" or "equivalence" with community rules in the present and in the future.

"The agreement reached establishes a special relationship between sovereign and equal institutions," stressed Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, in another message also addressed to the hard wing of the 'Tories'.

Johnson has a comfortable majority of 364 MPs from the start and should have no difficulty pushing through his agreement on the finish line one day before the Brextit transition period ends.

The leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, a supporter at the time of remaining in the EU, has even anticipated that he will ask for the vote in favor of his 200 deputies when the time comes.

"Leadership means making tough decisions in the national interest," Starmer said.

"At such a significant moment, it is not credible that the Labor Party is left in the gutter. We will be a serious and responsible opposition."

His decision, however, may reopen divisions within the party and force the resignations of a part of his shadow cabinet.

Several Labor MPs have advanced in advance their intention to break voting discipline and abstain

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The Scottish National Party (SNP) has already anticipated that its 47 deputies will vote against, as well as the 11 of the Liberal-Democratic Party.

"This deal will be bad for our companies, bad for families and bad for security," declared Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey.

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