What the papers say: Britain’s Brexit trump cards

The EU holds all the ‘trump cards’ in Brexit talks. Or at least that’s what some ‘Remainers’ would have you think, says the Sun in its editorial today. Don’t believe it, the paper insists, pointing out that the EU 27 ‘export a massive amount of goods to the UK’. In fact, as the government pointed out yesterday in its Brexit position paper on trade, our friends on the continent ‘sell more stuff here than to China, Russia, India and Brazil combined’. All this means that it is ‘massively in their interest to work with Britain’ – a realisation that is starting to sink in, the Sun suggests. Take the report published in Germany, for example, ‘which revealed genuine fears of damage to its economy if we are allowed to walk away without a proper trade deal’. The fact that European countries need Britain to secure a Brexit deal as much as we do, means it is vital ‘Britain must not give in on Theresa May’s red line on complete withdrawal from the European Court of Justice’, argues the paper.