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Quick intro to more analysis later - since Freeports are mentioned in this article worth making the point that it seems to me under the UK-EU deal that if the UK provides subsidies for them, or relaxes labour or environmental rules in them, the EU can take retaliatory action. https://twitter.com/JenniferMerode/status/1342728764850135042
There has never been level playing field content like this in a trade deal. The idea it is any kind of UK win, when the UK's opening position was no enforceable commitments whatsoever, is ridiculous. https://twitter.com/SamuelMarcLowe/status/1342588866751049733
The EU can take retaliatory action against the UK if we weaken labour standards, weaken pretty firm climate change targets, unfairly subsidise, or just in general seem to be out of line. There are processes to follow, but it looks like the PM did it again...
Final one for now. Quite how Labour gets itself in such a fuss about whether to support a deal with the strongest labour and environment commitments ever seen in a trade deal is a sign of just how far it hasn't moved on from leaving.
PS well... (sorry DAG). It certainly didn't have a good effect. And I think if we had settled LPF issues with the EU much earlier there is a good chance the conditions would have been far less stringent. By making an issue, we made it much worse. https://twitter.com/blueelmacho/status/1342739862374461443
Interesting... https://twitter.com/PascalLTH/status/1342552639335239682
Oh, here's the text. Have a quick flick through it, be astonished at the dull legalese, wait for specialist takes. Well that's my plan anyway... https://twitter.com/remkorteweg/status/1342744848688943105
So the UK signed up for ECJ as well, in a, shall we say, limited and specific way. Inevitable I think, but a powerful precedent. https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1342632123082170370
I am incidentally very much looking forward to distinguishing between those in the ERG who drop their principled objections to follow the prevailing political wind (true followers of Johnson?) and those who note that Johnson never saw a UK red line he wasn't prepared to relax.
Rules of origin quotas. Catnip for @SamuelMarcLowe. https://twitter.com/SamuelMarcLowe/status/1342757187186270212
Most of the year has actually been internal negotiations within parties, the crucial bit that the media misses. And in the UK the need for a deal to safeguard car manufacturing in the short term seems to have won in the end. https://twitter.com/SamuelMarcLowe/status/1342573485273604102
This is the Brussels Effect.
(Incidentally I'm reading as well, but copying the best points I see from others). https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1342762377599709185
(Incidentally I'm reading as well, but copying the best points I see from others). https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1342762377599709185
Absolutely this (from a former negotiator). My evolving conclusion is that a UK failure to reach a realistic internal position sufficiently early on LPF and fish in particular has meant ending up with a worse deal than expected in these areas. https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1342774435531673600
On even simpler, talking tough to the domestic gallery when competing with a very experienced trade superpower is a very poor negotiating strategy, particularly if your leader has form for folding when the going gets tough.
Alternate view. https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1342777570564169729
And more worth considering, especially in comparison to Conservative MPs with their Number 10 briefs claiming improbably the opposite. https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1342780728082370560
A weak deal for UK agricultural exporters in terms of checks. https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1342640990239256576?s=20
