Summary
- An announcement of a deal is expected on Thursday
- UK and EU negotiating teams finalising details after talks throughout the night
- UK cabinet ministers held a conference call late on Wednesday to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU
- UK PM Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also held talks throughout Wednesday
- Three “critical issues” needed to be resolved – fishing rights, government support for industry and how a deal is enforced
- The two sides have one week to get any deal formally approved in London and Brussels
- The UK left the EU at the end of January, but remains under its trading rules until 31 December
- If a deal is not signed off by then, tariffs – or taxes on goods – could come into force
Source BBC.com
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Is TODAY the day they deliver? UK and EU negotiators pore over trade ‘dirty text’ with Boris Johnson due to announce historic post-Brexit deal this morning after last-minute haggling over fishing rights
- Boris Johnson is expected to confirm within the coming hours that a post-Brexit trade deal has been agreed
- The PM and Ursula von der Leyen are understood to have held regular secret phone calls in the last 48 hours
- Briefing wars about who has won are already ramping up as sides prepare to sell the agreement to their voters
Source Dailymail
