After the excitement of last week’s Brexit negotiations – which saw Theresa May’s working lunch that didn’t work, the DUP veto the government’s Brexit plans and a last minute Brexit agreement on Friday – today’s statement from the Prime Minister proved a rather tame affair. With Jean-Claude Juncker recommending that the EU Council allow the Brexit talks to now move onto trade, the Prime Minister appeared at the despatch box to try and calm nerves over the contents of that draft agreement.
May told MPs that it has been ‘give and take’ for both the UK and the EU when it came to reaching ‘sufficient progress’. With a number of Tories concerned over the £39bn Brexit bill, ‘full alignment’ solution to the Irish border and the continued role for the ECJ on citizens’ rights, May was keen to stress that ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’:
‘I have always been clear that this was never going to be an easy process.
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