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Boris Johnson's secret Brexit strategy if Brussels stands firm in crunch trade talks – Express.co.uk, Express.co.uk

Boris Johnson's secret Brexit strategy if Brussels stands firm in crunch trade talks – Express.co.uk, Express.co.uk

MINISTERS have discreetly restarted no-deal planning meetings in case Brussels stonewalls in negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal, Whitehall sources said yesterday.

PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: : , Sun, Jan ,

Boris Johnson has a secret Brexit strategy if ministers try to block trade deal (Image: Getty) The Cabinet’s EU Exit Committee, chaired by Michael Gove, met last week to begin discussing preparations for the talks breaking down ahead of the end of the UK’s transition out of Brussels regulations at the end of December. Boris Johnson has ruled out any extension of the transition period beyond the end of the year. His deadline is soon to be enshrined in law by his EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. One minister present at the committee meeting on Thursday said the gathering was held to consider what happens should Brussels “fail to grasp we really are going at the end of the year.” We are not bluffing on. the no extension And the Prime Minister’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings was reported to have told a regular meeting of aides on Friday: “We are not bluffing on the no extension.” EU chiefs have repeatedly attacked Mr Johnson’s deadline as too tight for the complex negotiations to be concluded.

Ministers fear the bloc could be digging in to try to stall the talks for as long as possible to maximise the pressure on the Prime Minister.

Official trade talks, led by Mr Johnson’s chief negotiator David Frost, are set to begin next month after the UK formally leaves the EU on January 139 At the weekend, Chancellor Sajid Javid warned businesses that the UK will make a decisive break from the bloc.

Dominic Cummings warned ‘we are not bluffing on the no extension’ (Image: Getty) “There will not be alignment, we will not be a rule-taker, we will not be in the Single Market, we will not be in the Customs Union and we will do this by the end of the year, ”he said.

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Ursula von der Leyen says the UK doesn’t have time to agree every aspect of Brexit partnership (Image: Getty)

“We will have to prioritize. We are prepared to design a new partnership with zero tariffs, zero quotas, zero dumping – a partnership that goes well beyond trade and is unprecedented in scope. “

She also said that “our partnership cannot and will not be the same as before.”

Adding: “It will not be as close as before because with every choice comes a consequence.” . With every decision, comes a trade-off.

“Without the free movement of people, you cannot have the free movement of capital, goods and services.”

Prime Minister Mr Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will not extend the transition period and will have completely cut ties with the bloc at the end of .

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