Boris Johnson: UK gets ‘diddly squat’ from Could possibly’s Brexit plans

Boris Johnson has savaged Theresa Could possibly’s Brexit plans, announcing they’d lumber away the UK with “diddly squat” after the negotiations and hand the EU “victory”.
The faded foreign secretary ancient his On every day foundation Telegraph column to speak the PM’s Chequers deal – which led him to resign in July – “manner ache” for Britain.
It comes because the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says he’s “strongly” antagonistic to elements of the knowing.
The UK executive insisted its Brexit technique changed into as soon as “accurate and pragmatic”.

The so-known as Chequers deal changed into as soon as agreed by cupboard at the prime minister’s country location because the UK’s most well-most current design forward in negotiations with Brussels.
‘Wrestling match’
Mrs Could possibly’s knowing would leer the UK agreeing a “total rulebook” with the EU for trading in goods, in an strive to preserve up friction-less change at the border.
It moreover officially ends the jurisdiction of the European Court docket of Justice in the UK, but the ECJ would continue to be “the interpreter of EU principles” that the UK has agreed to stay to.
Critics converse the deal will leave the UK tied to EU principles and forestall Britain from striking its maintain change deals in years to reach help.

The negotiations between the UK and EU maintain a casual closing date tied to a summit in October – even if figures on both aspect maintain said it can possibly possibly go help to November.
The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March.
In his first intervention since quitting the executive, Mr Johnson when in contrast negotiations between Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Mr Barnier to a wrestling match.
He wrote: “Your whole factor is about as pre-ordained as a bout between Massive Haystacks and Big Daddy; and in this case, I am scared, the inevitable final result is a victory for the EU, with the UK lying flat on the canvas and 12 stars circling symbolically over our semi-wide awake head.”
Mr Johnson said negotiations in accordance with the Chequers knowing had thus far considered the EU resolve “every distinguished trick”, adding: “The UK has agreed at give up £40bn of taxpayers’ money for two-thirds of diddly squat.”
He said by the use of the technique – defended by Mrs Could possibly in the Sunday Telegraph over the weekend – the UK had “gone into fight with the white flag fluttering over our leading tank”.
If it continued on the same route, Mr Johnson added, the executive would “throw away numerous the benefits of Brexit”.

Mr Johnson moreover accused some participants of the executive of the use of the converse of the border between Eire and Northern Eire to “end a vivid Brexit”, but added: “They were rumbled.”
The “scandal” at some stage in the border danger changed into as soon as “not that we have failed, but that we have not even tried”, he added.
Downing Avenue has yet to answer to Mr Johnson’s feedback.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mr Barnier criticised the Chequers deal, announcing to agree to it will leer “the head of the single market and the European project”.
He said plans for a “total rulebook” for goods but not products and services had been not in the EU’s interests, adding: “Our maintain ecosystem has grown over a long time. You can not play with it by picking pieces.”
Mr Barnier has criticised Mrs Could possibly’s Chequers knowing beforehand, but sources shut to him urged the BBC he had not been this say earlier than.
“The British maintain a possibility,” he said. “They’d possibly cease in the single market, admire Norway, which is moreover not a member of the EU – but they’d then wish to resolve over all of the associated principles and contributions to European solidarity. It’s your possibility.
“However if we let the British take the raisins out of our principles, that would maintain severe consequences.
“Then all kinds of more than a few 1/three[-party] international locations might possibly possibly squawk that we provide them the same benefits.”

Responding to Mr Barnier’s remarks, a executive spokeswoman said of Chequers: “This proposal achieves a brand unusual steadiness of rights and duties that fulfils our joint ambition to attach a deep and particular partnership as soon as the UK has left the EU whereas preserving the constitutional integrity of the UK. There might possibly be not any varied proposal that does that.
“Our negotiating teams maintain upped the intensity, and we continue to switch at hotfoot to reach – as Mr Barnier says – an ambitious partnership, which will work in the mutual interests of voters and firms in the UK and in the EU.”
On Sunday, Mrs Could possibly wrote that she changed into as soon as “confident” a “vivid deal” might possibly possibly nicely be reached on Brexit.
However she said it changed into as soon as vivid for the executive to address for a no-deal scenario – even if this would salvage “precise challenges for both the UK and the EU” in some sectors.BBC NEWS