Brexit talks face a “moment of reckoning” this week and Britain will not compromise on the key sticking points, the foreign secretary warned this morning. Dominic Raab accused the EU of “double standards” of asking Britain to sign up for conditions it did not ask of other countries as sabre-rattling recommenced ahead of a fresh round of talks beginning on Tuesday. However, Mr Raab insisted a deal was “there for the taking” and that Britain wanted an agreement to avoid the “damaging impacts” of tariffs and other barriers. Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator, insisted Britain would not blink first and would leave with no deal rather than become a “client state”. One EU diplomatic source dismissed the rhetoric as “very predictable at this

Source: The Times September 06, 2020 11:13 UTC