Brexit Theresa May disowns Hammond's Davos remarks as MPs rebel over Brexit Chancellor says government will seek ‘modest’ changes from EU, while Jacob Rees-Mogg says ministers are ‘cowed’ Philip Hammond said the government would seek only ‘modest’ changes in its relationship with the EU. He wrote: “I said in Davos that gov wants to minimise any reduction in access to EU market post Brexit. And it’s a fact our economies are integrated, that’s the baseline from which we leave the single market and customs union – which clearly represents change. “The negotiations that are about to begin sound as if they aim to keep us in a similar system to the single market and the customs union,” Rees-Mogg said. The Labour MP Stephen Doughty of pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: “Theresa May is losing control of the Brexit process.

Source: The Guardian January 25, 2018 19:13 UTC