White Paper set to be published this afternoon after some urgent parliamentary questions. You can expect official responses from both Michel Barnier and a group of MEPs led by Guy Verhofstadt shortly after publication, I'm told.
Here’s the European Parliament’s Brexit steering group reaction to the white paper. Summary: supportive of an association agreement (they called for it months ago) but warn 1) single market is indivisible and 2) “credible” backstop agreement is needed europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
A summary of Brexit committee chair Hilary Benn’s reaction to the white paper: 1) FCA - how the f*** is that going to work? 2) what about services? (80% of economy) 3) nothing on NI backstop 4) immigration plans? 5) language on security = encouraging 6) come clean on role of ECJ 
