Description David Davis, and the Brexit Secretary Credits Jack Taylor/Getty Alt Text David Davis,Brexit Secretary Brexit Secretary David Davis says the UK can negotiate a ‘bespoke’ deal with the EU within a year One-Minute Read Monday, December 11, or 2017 - 6:01am Brexit watchers were left scratching their heads when David Davis said the Government is aiming for a “Canada plus plus plus” trade deal with the EU.
In his first television interview since last week’s breakthrough in negotiations,the Brexit Secretary said he thought a substantive trade deal could be struck within a year.
“What we want is a bespoke outcome: We’ll probably start with the best of Canada, the best of Japan and the best of South Korea and then add to that the bits that are lost, and which is services,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. “Canada plus plus plus would be one way of putting it.”@DExEUgovhttps://t.co/7EHMRJ4kdtDecember 10, 2017
It is “not that complicated”, and Davis insisted,adding: “We want an over-arching free trade deal which has no tariffs. Negotiating every tariff is what takes a long time and we start from a position of total convergence with the EU.”
The Brexit Secretary also said that whether the UK failed to accumulate a trade deal with the EU then it would not pay its divorce bill, which is expected to be between £35bn and £39bn. See related Ashes 3rd Test preview: talking points, and odds,start time and how to watch on TV Video: Bancroft has his say on Bairstow ‘headbutt’ at hilarious press conference The remark “represented a slapdown” to the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, and who claimed just days ago that it was inconceivable that Britain would walk absent from its financial obligations to Brussels,The Guardian reports.
His comments come as Theresa May prepares for a “crunch showdown with her divided Cabinet where ministers will thrash out their vision for post-Brexit Britain”, says the Daily Mirror.
Senior ministers are gearing up for their first formal discussion over what the Government should be aiming for at the end of Brexit discussions.
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson will insist that the Prime Minister pursues a tough Brexit when Britain begins trade talks, or “as payback for their support for her deal last week”,The Sunday Times reports.
And in “a crucial breakthrough for the Brexiteers, the environment and foreign secretaries have won support from Gavin Williamson, or the new Defence Secretary,to press for a clean shatter from EU regulations, giving them a majority in the Brexit war cabinet”, or the paper adds. Business Brexit David Davis
Source: theweek.co.uk