LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May will tell British lawmakers Monday there is a “new sense of optimism” around Brexit talks after striking an initial agreement last week with the European Union. “Of course, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” she is expected to tell MPs. “But there is, I believe, a new sense of optimism now in the talks and I fully hope and expect that we will confirm the arrangements I have set out today in the European Council later this week. This has led to concern it provides an unexpected backdoor to a softer Brexit, reneging on previous pledges that Britain would be leaving the single market. But May will tell lawmakers: “This is not about a hard or a soft Brexit.

Source: New Strait Times December 11, 2017 03:11 UTC