UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated to the parliament that he won’t accept a deal with EU that requires the UK to move in step automatically. His comments are seen as setting the red lines for tonight’s discussion with the EU.
He told the parliament, “our friends in the EU are currently insisting that if they pass a new law in the future with which we in this country do not comply … then they want the automatic right … to punish us and to retaliate.”
“And secondly, they are saying that the UK should be the only country in the world not to have sovereign control over its fishing waters”, he added. “I don’t believe that those are terms that any prime minister of this country should accept.”
Johnson is set to travel to Brussels later today for a dinner with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to work through a list of major sticking points
