British Prime Minister Theresa May is now delivering a prepared statement on the latest Brexit talks at the Salzburg summit.
Key quotes
- Despite the progress, there are two big issues remaining.
- The EU is still only offering us two options on the economic relationship.
- Offer no. one on economic relationship would mean we abide by all EU rules, would make mockery of Brexit vote.
- A no deal is better than a ‘bad deal.’
- Tusk didn’t make a counterproposal.
- Uncontrolled immigration would continue, we wouldn’t be able to do trade deals with other countries on EU option, mockery of Brexit vote.
- Northern Ireland would effectively remain in customs union under EU proposals, that is even worse, parliament has rejected this idea.
- Anything which fails to respect the referendum and effectively divides our country in two would be a bad deal.
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