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The EU's remaining Brexit stumbling block

9 December 2020

11:32 PM

9 December 2020

11:32 PM

Here is the fundamental stumbling block to a free trade deal, one that the Prime Minister has just confirmed in PMQs. And it is not clear how it can be sorted. The EU wants the unilateral right to toughen up its labour laws, or environmental standards or other so-called level playing field rules.

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