Brexit deal: May in crunch meeting to decide fate of agreement – Politics live

Cabinet will meet at 2pm to discuss draft deal agreed by UK and EU negotiatorsTheresa May’s Brexit deal: everything you need to knowTory remainers ‘getting cold feet’ about Brexit deal rebellionLatest summary 1.54pm GMT The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has been watching ministers arriving at No 10 for the 2pm cabinet meeting.Cabinet ministers arriving – all pretty grim faced 1.52pm GMT In Germany, there was a cautious welcome for last night’s Brexit breakthrough, though most politicians left it up to Brussels to comment. Speaking to the German broadcaster ARD, Manfred Weber, the head of the European People’s party (EPP) in the European parliament and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) said: The white smoke is rising. We have positive signals that, after months and weeks of torturous debate, it will now come to an agreement. We Europeans have put a lot of suggestions on the table about what a potential solution would look like. And now we’re really, so to speak, at completion.Concretely that means we will get a transition phase to avoid damage, above all for the economy but also for affected citizens, for instance Germans in Great Britain. And we want to clarify in the long term that there will be no border in Northern Ireland. It was successful. The Northern Irish border will not be set up as a hard border and to that extent we have achieved some of the goals that we have as Europeans.We will look at the text, just the same as our colleagues in the British parliament. I can’t promise anything today.Die Einigung zwischen EU-Kommission und Großbritannien zum #Brexit ist eine gute Nachricht. Dafür wurde es höchste Zeit. Nun gilt es noch einige Hürden zu überwinden ➡️ Als nächstes müssen in Großbritannien Kabinett und Parlament dem Entwurf zustimmen. Continue reading…
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