Boris Johnson is legislating to repeal the Brexit evacuation agreement on Northern Ireland, a move that threatens to end the crisis that the prime minister has said should be completed’ within five weeks.
Johnson will
issue an ultimatum to negotiators this week, saying Britain and Europe must
agree on a trade deal after Brexit by October 15 or Britain will go the good
way.
But progress
on the already fragile negotiations will be jeopardized by plans unveiled on
Sunday that the UK government deliberately withdrew in January to publish a
controversial part of the domestic market bill on Wednesday. Will try to open
some parts of the agreement. This will include elements of special arrangements
in Northern Ireland that are legally binding.
A British
government source told the Guardian that the deal was part of preparations to
pull out of the deal, which would introduce a number of new barriers to trade
with Northern Ireland - and acknowledged that the move could threaten
negotiations this week. Is.
Labor said
the prime minister was "threatening to take revenge on Britain's legal
obligations" and called it "an act of outrageous bad faith: looking
closely at trade partners and allies around the world." Will go
The news was
condemned by the Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, who helped broker
the original Brexit settlement. He said any change would be "extremely
unwise".
The move,
first reported by the Financial Times, will return parts of the UK's agreement
with the European Union on state aid and customs arrangements for Northern
Ireland. It is understood’ that the British government believes that the
original protocol was drafted’ with sufficient ambiguity to allow for a change
in its interpretation. The idea is that Brussels can be very competitive.
A government
spokesman said he hoped an agreement could still be, reached. "As a
responsible government, we are considering declining options to ensure the
safety of Northern Ireland's communities, if that goal is not achieved."
Leading
figures close to the talks have already warned that EU leaders and heads of
state must intervene before the end of the month to prevent the talks from
ending.
On Monday,
the prime minister will set a permanent date of October 15 - the date of the
European Council - to sign the agreement, which will be in a dark mood when
formal talks between Britain's top negotiator, David Frost, and Negotiations
will begin. Michel Barnier of the European Union.
If no
agreement is reached’ before the deadline, the UK will "move forward"
and accept that there can be no agreement, Johnson said, adding that no
agreement will be a "good result".
The prime
minister will fight hard, suggesting that the deadline will not be met’ and
will claim that the UK is ready to trade on World Trade Organization terms from
January.
"There
is no sense in thinking about time limits beyond this point." "If we
can't agree by then, then I don't see a free trade agreement between us, and we
both
Johnson and his allies have repeatedly
said they do not believe the earlier talks did not solidify any agreement.
EU officials had earlier said the deadline
would be the end of October. Sources close to the talks have suggested that
fresh faces and member states' interventions now need to be broken in the days
leading up to the resumption.
Raoul Ruparel, a key adviser to Theresa
May's Brexit negotiating team, suggested that the dynamics needed to change.
"It's just Frost and Barnier and the same teams are in talks. You have two
immovable objects re-seated and you won't see much movement from it.
"It needs to change, some kind of
fresh input, political input; if we come to the end of the year and there is no
agreement between our two close allies, it would seem ridiculous, but Trapped
with both sides, where the method of unlocking the conversation is clear, it is
not clear.
Johnson would signify an agreement as a
"trade arrangement with the European Union like Australia", saying
the UK would have full control over its laws and fishing waters and as a result
"There will be strong growth."
He says if the EU wants to do that; the UK
will have "sensible housing on practical issues such as flights, lorry
transport, or scientific co-operation."
Industry leaders have previously said that
no agreement would be catastrophic for the country, adding that overnight
tariffs on goods would increase industry and consumer spending.
Last week, Thomas Simpson, a professor of
economics at LSE, said there could be no deal for more than the code's economic
shock, which could reduce the cost of UK production by 3.3 tonnes.
Johnson says negotiators will continue to
work hard to try to close the deal. "Even at this final stage, I would be
happy if the European Union was ready to reconsider and agree to its current
position," he said. But we cannot compromise on their basic principles,
nor what does it mean to be a free country to achieve them.
Concerns have been raised’ that European
leaders, Belarus and the Eastern Mediterranean, are facing crisis over plans
for the recovery of Cove 19 and foreign policy crises.
There are three stumbling blocks: state
aid, fisheries and governance. The European Union (EU) has protested Britain's
refusal to make proposals, accusing Barnier of forcing it to agree on
"difficult" areas first and engaging in easier challenges such as fishing
rights. I have failed.
Although some national capitalist’s favor
a tougher negotiating stance than Barnier's pursuit, they manage to leave the
negotiations in his hands, raising fears that if confidence is tested’ by new
ideas. If back channels are not created’ then there will be no agreement.
A UK official source said member states'
involvement had been minimal, but a more direct approach could be reached’ with
EU leaders.
"Our broad view is that it will
emerge in the next few weeks," the source said. "The nature of these
negotiations is that when we get to the final stages, the big players will
start to get involved."
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on
Sunday that the Brexit talks were approaching a "moment of reckoning"
and that the agreement was "for taking".
UK officials want to start technical work
on most trade agreements related to goods and services, for example on service
schedules. "If we can't start talking about the legal text this week, it
will be difficult to do all the work in the time available," said a UK
official.
EU sources say last-minute political
interference would be more dangerous. "Ursula van der Lane is not as
interested in Brexit as [Jean-Claude] Juncker was," the source said,
quoting the European Commission president and his predecessor. "You get
the impression that it wants to move forward in the same way for any member
state."
Concerns over the end of the talks have
intensified over the past 24 hours, Frost said. He was not "afraid"
of fleeing the government.
Reinforced by his comments in the Mail on
Sunday, former May Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell said Frost had a "brass
neck."
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