{"id":381807,"date":"2017-12-10T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381807"},"modified":"2017-12-10T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:32:11","slug":"brexit-mays-eu-deal-not-binding-says-david-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/brexit-mays-eu-deal-not-binding-says-david-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: May’s EU deal not binding, says David Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"
The UK’s Brexit negotiator David Davis has described the deal struck by Theresa May to move to the next phase of talks as a “statement of intent”.<\/p>\n
He said it was not “legally enforceable” and if the UK failed to get a trade deal with the EU then it would not pay its divorce bill.<\/p>\n
But he stressed that the UK was committed to keeping a “frictionless and invisible” Irish border.<\/p>\n
And it would “find a way” to do this if there was a “no deal” Brexit.<\/p>\n
The Brexit secretary also stressed that the odds of the UK exiting without a deal had “dropped dramatically” following Friday’s joint EU-UK statement in Brussels.<\/p>\n
And he spelled out the kind of trade deal he wanted with the EU, describing it as “Canada plus plus plus”.<\/p>\n
‘Hard border’<\/strong><\/p>\n Canada’s deal with the EU, signed last year, removes the vast majority of customs duties on EU exports to Canada and Canadian exports to the EU.<\/p>\n But Mr Davis said it did not include trade in services, something he wanted to see in the UK’s “bespoke” deal with the EU.<\/p>\n Chancellor Philip Hammond has previously suggested the Brexit divorce bill – which the Treasury says will be between \u00a335bn and \u00a339bn – will be paid even if no EU trade deal is struck. Labour has also said it would continue to pay into the EU if there was no deal.<\/p>\n