Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Dominic Raab (l) will meet with Michel Barnier (r) in Brussels
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab is making ready for six hours of talks with the eu’s chief negotiator.
He will meet Michel Barnier in Brussels on Friday for the extended consultation prior to an european summit on 17 October.
Each Side are hoping to agree a divorce deal and a press release on future buying and selling members of the family ahead of the summit.
Mr Raab vowed to extend the frequency of talks with Mr Barnier when he took over the process in July, following the resignation of David Davis.
The assembly comes after probably the most senior member of Theresa May’s cabinet, David Lidington, known as for the eu to again the prime minister’s Brexit plan or risk a no deal state of affairs.
Mr Raab instructed a Lords Committee earlier this week that he had a “good professional and private rapport” with Mr Barnier, including that he was “confident that a deal is inside of our points of interest”.
But he recommended that the October closing date may just slip, pronouncing there was a “risk that it’ll creep past” that date.
Speaking in Berlin on Thursday, Mr Barnier stated the eu was “prepared to provide Britain a partnership equivalent to there never has been with every other 3rd country”.
But, he brought, it might not permit the rest that weakened the one marketplace.
“We admire Britain’s red traces scrupulously. In return, they must appreciate what we’re. Single market manner unmarried marketplace… there may be no single marketplace a l. a. carte,” he informed newshounds.
