On Christmas Eve, Boris Johnson signed a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU following several months of tense talks that frequently left the prospect of an agreement on a knife-edge. On Wednesday evening, the Prime Minister’s Brexit trade deal with the EU became law after receiving Royal Assent following its successful passage through the House of Commons and House of Lords earlier in the day. The new trade agreement comes into effect at 11pm on Thursday evening, replacing the Brexit transition period that has been in place for almost a year.

But ultimately, it will seal the UK’s full departure from the EU and free the nation from the bloc’s laws and regulations – four-and-a-half years after the historic Brexit referendum.

The French Government and in particular President Macron have been huge vocal critics of Brexit, often threatening to vote down agreements if the terms did not adhere their red lines.

Now the coined phrase ‘Frexit’ – created to try and force France’s own exit from the EU – is picking up significant pace on Twitter in the country.

On Wednesday, Mr Johnson tweeted a picture of him signing the EU trade deal, accompanied with the post: “By signing this deal, we fulfil the sovereign wish of the British people to live under their own laws, made by their own elected Parliament.