.@ShankerASingham:
"I read Ben Habib MEP’s article on BrexitCentral yesterday and thought it important to explain in a bit more detail why I think he is wrong – and why the Brexit Party is risking Brexit itself and doing so based on a false premise."
bit.ly/2NKogFg
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"I read Ben Habib MEP’s article on BrexitCentral yesterday and thought it important to explain in a bit more detail why I think he is wrong – and why the Brexit Party is risking Brexit itself and doing so based on a false premise."
bit.ly/2NKogFg
👏
Level playing field provisions in the future are now radically different.
The political declaration merely says there will be provisions in the EU-UK FTA to deal with labour, environment, competition and state aids.
These disciplines are *common in all FTAs*.
The political declaration merely says there will be provisions in the EU-UK FTA to deal with labour, environment, competition and state aids.
These disciplines are *common in all FTAs*.
This deal is now fundamentally different: an FTA is the final end state not a customs union in goods, which is where the previous deal would have taken us.
No more backstop tying the UK into a CU with the EU forever, and no more building from a single customs territory: 👍
No more backstop tying the UK into a CU with the EU forever, and no more building from a single customs territory: 👍
We cannot simply *demand* a “GATT Article 24” agreement with them: this is not how the process works.
The EU would need to agree, and they would require some form of comfort on citizens, money and the Irish border...
The EU would need to agree, and they would require some form of comfort on citizens, money and the Irish border...
It's been 3 long years since the referendum.
But look what's been achieved in the last 100 days: massive change.
Further delay increases uncertainty which is becoming a problem for the UK economy.
It also drains our trading partners of their goodwill.
But look what's been achieved in the last 100 days: massive change.
Further delay increases uncertainty which is becoming a problem for the UK economy.
It also drains our trading partners of their goodwill.
Partners are perplexed and frustrated now as a result of our past lack of clarity and focus.
That changed with Boris but unless we immediately get onto a whole-UK, whole-world trade negotiation phase, we will lose our windows of opportunity with them, especially the USA.
That changed with Boris but unless we immediately get onto a whole-UK, whole-world trade negotiation phase, we will lose our windows of opportunity with them, especially the USA.
Only if we #BackBoris can we #GetBrexitDone and unleash our potential so we can progress your priorities 
