Additional comments from the UK Chancellor Philip Hammond are crossing the wires with key quotes, via LiveSquawk, found below.
- Brexit agreement in coming weeks needs to be clear enough to bind parties, but not a detailed text.
- Six to eight weeks is quite large timescale for EU to reach difficult achievements.
- Brexit deal in six to eight weeks is doable.
- Political declaration about future relation between UK and EU needs enough detail for parliament to be able to take a view.
- I still anticipate a transitional arrangement as part of Brexit deal.