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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/20/fresh-brexit-talks-row-uk-eu-proposals-secret
Downing Street’s secrecy over its “underwhelming” Brexit proposals has caused a fresh rupture in the negotiations in Brussels.
The row centres on a demand that the EU’s negotiating team treat a long-awaited cache of documents outlining the UK’s latest ideas as “Her Majesty’s government property”.
The European commission team was told by Whitehall that the three “confidential” papers it had sent on Thursday evening should not be distributed to Brexit delegates representing the EU’s 27 other member states.
The three so-called non-papers – which do not commit the government to a specific policy solution – raise suggestions broached last week by David Frost, who is Boris Johnson’s chief negotiator, and which have been trawled over and rejected at an earlier stage in the two years of talks.
I can only conclude they are using a trial balloon to ditch Norther Ireland. Brexit will be the end of the Union as we know it will not be a great Election Campaign.
Downing Street’s secrecy over its “underwhelming” Brexit proposals has caused a fresh rupture in the negotiations in Brussels.
The row centres on a demand that the EU’s negotiating team treat a long-awaited cache of documents outlining the UK’s latest ideas as “Her Majesty’s government property”.
The European commission team was told by Whitehall that the three “confidential” papers it had sent on Thursday evening should not be distributed to Brexit delegates representing the EU’s 27 other member states.
The three so-called non-papers – which do not commit the government to a specific policy solution – raise suggestions broached last week by David Frost, who is Boris Johnson’s chief negotiator, and which have been trawled over and rejected at an earlier stage in the two years of talks.
I can only conclude they are using a trial balloon to ditch Norther Ireland. Brexit will be the end of the Union as we know it will not be a great Election Campaign.
