1/6 The next round of talks with the EU begins on Monday 29 June.  This is the start of the intensified process. We have published the agenda: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/negotiating-round-uk-eu-future-relationship-negotiations-29-june-to-3-july-2020

2/6 For the first time since March we will meet face to face, in Brussels. We look forward to welcoming the EU team to London the week after.

3/6 These meetings will be smaller and focused on seeing whether we can begin to make genuine and rapid progress towards an agreement.  We will go to Brussels in good faith to engage with the EU’s concerns.

4/6 This needs to be a real negotiation and some of the EU’s unrealistic positions will have to change if we are to move forward.  We have noted carefully what the EU has said in recent days on this subject and look forward to discussing it.

5/6 UK sovereignty, over our laws, our courts, or our fishing waters, is of course not up for discussion.   Equally we do not seek anything which would undermine the integrity of the EU’s single market.

6/6 Finally, I want to be clear that the Government will not agree to ideas like the one currently circulating giving the EU a new right to retaliate with tariffs if we chose to make laws suiting our interests.We could not leave ourselves open to such unforeseeable economic risk.