Brexit LIVE: UK 'must follow EU rules' as Britain 'not fully sovereign', warns Macron ally
| Published date | 11 January 2021 |
| Publication title | Express, The/The Express on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England) |
"It’s a balance that shows and I think in a way that is a great situation because they will have access to the markets but they will not decide on the roots of this big EU markets.
"So I think it’s much better and we should demonstrate it insisting it to be within the club and to be able to decide on these rules.
“It’s much better to be within the club and to be able to decide on these rules.”
It comes as International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said poorer countries will be offered "more generous" terms to trade with the UK post-Brexit under a new "emerging markets" scheme.
She told the Commons tonight: "Trade is the key not just to prosperity but also peace and co-operation between nations, and I want to reassure the House that we're going to ensure that no country is left behind without the benefits of free and fair trade with the United Kingdom.
"Later this year we'll be launching an emerging markets trade scheme which will offer the lowest-income countries a better deal when they're trading with the UK. It'll be more generous than the EU scheme, and it'll help those countries on to the ladder towards prosperity through the enterprise and ingenuity of their people."
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4.30am update: EU backlash: Mallorca fishermen fury at Brexit rules – Brussels faces unexpected new crisis
EU chiefs are facing another fishing crisis - with Mallorca's fishermen up in arms at tough new restrictions limiting the amount of the time they can operate in the Balearic Islands.
In accordance with a five-year plan introduced last year, the European Commission has been pushing a 15 percent reduction in the number of fishing days permitted in the Mediterranean this year. However, Spain, particularly the autonomous regions which are dependent on fisheries rebelled, as did the Balearic Islands, including Mallorca.
Mae de la Concha, the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister for the Balearics, despite being a member of the left-leaning Podemos party, has sided with fishermen who called for the proposal to be shelved.
However, Spanish minister Luis Planas conducted a series of subsequent negotiations with Brussels which resulted in a commitment to reduce the number of fishing days by 7.5 percent - still far too high for Mallorcan fishermen.
2.30am update: Dutch officials confiscate UK lorry driver's ham sandwich, declaring: 'Welcome to Brexit'
Brexiteer Ben Habib has hit out at Dutch border officials after they mocked a British lorry driver and confiscated his lunch.
The Dutch officials were filmed laughing at the British driver after confiscating his ham sandwiches due to post-Brexit import regulations. The new rules state that meat, meat products, milk or dairy products, can be brought into the European Union from countries outside of it. In the footage, the officials say to the driver, "Everything will be confiscated – welcome to the Brexit, Sir."
The video has since gone viral and attracted the attention of former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib from Brexit Unlocked.
He told Express.co.uk: "One of Britons’ greatest strengths is our common sense. We are famed for it; able to judge situations in the round and find a sensible solution.
"You would never catch a Bobby confiscating someone’s lunch.
"No doubt these Dutch border officers took pleasure in their inflexible application of EU bureaucratic madness. All I can say is thank God we are out."
1am update: Boris Johnson told to 'come clean' over true cost of EU's eye-watering Brexit divorce bill
Boris Johnson is facing demands to publish the exact cost of the Brexit divorce bill amid claims the final pay-out will be much higher than previously anticipated.
Former Brexit Party MP Ben Habib urged the Prime Minister to "come clean" after emerged the EU's demands for just one part of the settlement had soared by £2.6billion in two years. Facts4EU.Org said UK taxpayers had paid the EU an eye-watering £41billion since voting to quit the bloc in 2016.
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