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Juncker indicates he won’t accept May’s Post-Brexit single market plan

During Jean-Claude Juncker’s annual state of the union address he said that sections of the single market could “certainly not” be offered to countries outside the EU trading area. These comments would appear to pour cold water on the Theresa May’s plan to keep Britain in the single market for goods after Brexit. Juncker said: “We respect the British decision to leave our Union, even though we continue to regret it deeply. “But we also ask the British government to...

Michael Gove backpedals on Brexit animal welfare vows & denies plot to oust Theresa May

Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC’s Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching Theresa May. A Tory leadership coup could be just days away with members of the Hard Brexit shadowy Tory ‘government within a government’ the ERG meeting to plot ditching the...

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