A statement from No 10 said Downing Street and White House officials had discussed "increased UK-US working" in a series of phone calls since the alleged failed plot on Christmas Day.

来自第10号的一份声明称，自未遂的圣诞袭击以来，唐宁街和白宫官员已就“加强英美合作”进行了一系列的电话交流。

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Christmas eve is still a working day, however: the shops are open until midday.

不过，圣诞夜这天仍是工作日：商店一直开到中午。

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And Joe Biden couldn't have picked a better day than yesterday for a telephone news conference with reporters working the Christmas week shift.

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"Without them we would have been closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day if they hadn't been up and working, so they save us an awful lot of cleaning up, a lot of messing around, " he said.

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