The “extra-extra-time” London-Brussels Brexit histrionics were only to be expected, because Boris Johnson and his right-wing Brexiteers have told British voters for years they would get something impossible: all the benefits we’ve enjoyed for decades within the EU with none of the obligations.
Most of the detailed legal text for a deal has been signed off, leaving the major sticking points, but plenty of confusion in Brussels at what Britain really wants.
The EU offer to the UK was a deal to continue to get full and “unfettered access” for trade
if there is continued alignment with the standards of the Single Market Britain has been party to negotiating and respecting for decades.
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in central London. Image: Aaron Chown/PA Wire The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that the outcome of years of negotiating the UK s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) would likely be known later today (Sunday, December 13). Speaking to Sky News this morning, the Esher and Walton MP said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would speak with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the (European) Commission, on Sunday afternoon to discuss whether negotiations between EU and UK representatives had breached several key sticking points that remain before a trade deal is agreed on.