“Northern Ireland must leave the EU on the same terms as the rest of the United Kingdom. We will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates Northern Ireland economically or politically from the rest of the United Kingdom. I was ready to present draft EU27 guidelines tomorrow for #Brexit talks on transition and future. Sturgeon said there was “no good practical reason” that Scotland could not effectively remain in the single market if the same was true for Northern Ireland. Jeremy Corbyn claimed that the difficulties in overcoming negotiation points showed that May’s government was ill-equipped to negotiate a successful Brexit deal.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2017 16:53 UTC