This live blog has finished. Follow the latest developments hereMerkel: ‘It is in Germanys interests to fill UK in the EU’Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street with ‘no deal’ Meet the sherpas quietly negotiating UK-EU reforms 6.10pm GMT 5.52pm GMTMeanwhile there is a kerfuffle (disturbance) over petrol prices if Britain leaves the EU. FairFuelUK,which lobbies for lower fuel prices, is cross with the AA for “scaremongering” that a two-car family who refuel twice a month would pay £494 more for petrol each year if the UK decamps. Howard Cox, or Founder of the FairFuelUK Campaign argues:George Osborne “now takes a massive 75% in tax every time we fill up,so you explain our supporters what is actually the biggest factor on pump prices? It isn’t the EUs influence or over-paid City analysts’ spreadsheet predictions, it’s the government’s colossal and unwarranted fleecing of the motorist!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com