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| Brexit: Boris Johnson says countries queuing up for trade deals | Brexit: Boris Johnson says countries queuing up for trade deals |
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| Other countries are "queuing up" to sign trade deals with the UK once it leaves the EU, Boris Johnson has said. | Other countries are "queuing up" to sign trade deals with the UK once it leaves the EU, Boris Johnson has said. |
| The foreign secretary also said the UK would not be "hauling up the drawbridge" despite new migration controls promised by Theresa May. | The foreign secretary also said the UK would not be "hauling up the drawbridge" despite new migration controls promised by Theresa May. |
| Mrs May set out her Brexit strategy - which includes pulling out of the EU single market - in a speech on Tuesday. | Mrs May set out her Brexit strategy - which includes pulling out of the EU single market - in a speech on Tuesday. |
| She also warned the EU not to try to "punish" the UK, saying she would walk away unless the right deal was offered. | She also warned the EU not to try to "punish" the UK, saying she would walk away unless the right deal was offered. |
| In his first reaction to the speech, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker promised to work to ensure Brexit talks are carried out "according to the rules and they yield good results". | In his first reaction to the speech, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker promised to work to ensure Brexit talks are carried out "according to the rules and they yield good results". |
| He added: "I welcome the clarifications given by Mrs May, but I said to her last night that a speech will not launch the negotiations." | He added: "I welcome the clarifications given by Mrs May, but I said to her last night that a speech will not launch the negotiations." |
| With just over two months to go before the UK government is due to get talks under way, Mr Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph that the UK would "no longer have our trade policy run by the EU commission". | With just over two months to go before the UK government is due to get talks under way, Mr Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph that the UK would "no longer have our trade policy run by the EU commission". |
| He added: "That means - crucially - that we will be able to do new free trade deals with countries around the world. They are already queuing up. | He added: "That means - crucially - that we will be able to do new free trade deals with countries around the world. They are already queuing up. |
| "Under EU rules, we are not formally allowed to negotiate these new treaties until we leave. But there is nothing to say that ideas cannot be pencilled in." | "Under EU rules, we are not formally allowed to negotiate these new treaties until we leave. But there is nothing to say that ideas cannot be pencilled in." |
| EU leaders have begun to deliver their verdicts on Mrs May's speech. | EU leaders have begun to deliver their verdicts on Mrs May's speech. |
| Before Mr Juncker spoke, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose country currently has presidency of the EU, warned: "We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom, but that deal necessarily needs to be inferior to membership. | Before Mr Juncker spoke, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose country currently has presidency of the EU, warned: "We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom, but that deal necessarily needs to be inferior to membership. |
| "Thinking it can be otherwise would indicate a detachment from reality." | "Thinking it can be otherwise would indicate a detachment from reality." |
| The Czech Republic's Secretary of State for EU Affairs, Tomas Prouza, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was important that a Brexit deal "makes sense for both sides". | The Czech Republic's Secretary of State for EU Affairs, Tomas Prouza, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was important that a Brexit deal "makes sense for both sides". |
| What the newspapers say about May's speech | |
| In its headline, the Times sums up the prime minister's message to the EU as "Give us a fair deal or you'll be crushed". | |
| Meanwhile, the Brexit-supporting Daily Mail draws parallels with Margaret Thatcher, saying Mrs May exhibited the "steel of the new Iron Lady". | |
| The Guardian, which opposed Brexit in the referendum, found the speech a "doubly depressing event" - a reality check for those who want to keep the UK in the single market while being riddled with its own streak of "global fantasy". | |
| The Financial Times praises the prime minister's "bold vision" but warns that the road ahead will be perilous. | |
| The Sun's front page is mocked up as a Biblical tablet of stone bearing the single-word headline "Brexodus". | |
| Read The Papers in full | |
| Downing Street said European leaders spoken to by Mrs May in a series of phone calls had welcomed the "clarity" of her plans. | Downing Street said European leaders spoken to by Mrs May in a series of phone calls had welcomed the "clarity" of her plans. |
| In her speech, Mrs May said she did not want to "undermine" the EU or the single market, but she warned against trying to "punish" the UK. | In her speech, Mrs May said she did not want to "undermine" the EU or the single market, but she warned against trying to "punish" the UK. |
| She suggested the UK could cut its corporate tax rates to compete with the EU if denied access to the single market, and hinted that she could walk away from talks if not happy, stating that "no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain". | She suggested the UK could cut its corporate tax rates to compete with the EU if denied access to the single market, and hinted that she could walk away from talks if not happy, stating that "no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain". |
| Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May's "implied threat" to turn the UK into a "low-corporation tax haven" was an "odd way of approaching a constructive relationship with a whole continent". | Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May's "implied threat" to turn the UK into a "low-corporation tax haven" was an "odd way of approaching a constructive relationship with a whole continent". |
| Analysis - By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor | Analysis - By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor |
| Since the referendum Theresa May and her ministers have simply refused to be so explicit. | Since the referendum Theresa May and her ministers have simply refused to be so explicit. |
| For months, some ministers have privately whispered about complex solutions that might keep elements of membership - the choices not being binary, mechanisms that might give a sort of membership with a different name. | For months, some ministers have privately whispered about complex solutions that might keep elements of membership - the choices not being binary, mechanisms that might give a sort of membership with a different name. |
| Well, no more. The simple and clear message from Theresa May's speech this morning is that we are out. | Well, no more. The simple and clear message from Theresa May's speech this morning is that we are out. |
| Read Laura's blog here | Read Laura's blog here |
| Another key part of the prime minister's speech was her promise that Parliament would get to vote on the final Brexit deal. | Another key part of the prime minister's speech was her promise that Parliament would get to vote on the final Brexit deal. |
| Asked what would happen if MPs and peers rejected it, Brexit Secretary David Davis told Today: "They won't vote it down. This negotiation will succeed. It will succeed." | Asked what would happen if MPs and peers rejected it, Brexit Secretary David Davis told Today: "They won't vote it down. This negotiation will succeed. It will succeed." |
| The government says it will invoke Article 50 by the end of March, with discussions set to last up to two years after that. | The government says it will invoke Article 50 by the end of March, with discussions set to last up to two years after that. |
| Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer told BBC Breakfast there was "no mandate" for Mrs May's "bargain basement tax haven threat", which he said would make people poorer and be "totally inconsistent" with the protection of "workers' rights and a fairer Britain". | Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer told BBC Breakfast there was "no mandate" for Mrs May's "bargain basement tax haven threat", which he said would make people poorer and be "totally inconsistent" with the protection of "workers' rights and a fairer Britain". |
| But he added: "What she did say, though, which was important, is that she intends to have as one of her objectives tariff-free access to the single market... that is really important for business." | But he added: "What she did say, though, which was important, is that she intends to have as one of her objectives tariff-free access to the single market... that is really important for business." |
| European press reaction to Brexit speech | |
| A "catalogue of demands with some threats thrown in" is German news magazine Der Spiegel's description of Theresa May's Brexit speech. It says that her desire to leave the single market while retaining access to trade with Europe shows that her government is "not just nasty but also blind to reality". | |
| Germany's Die Welt also mocks her with the headline "Little Britain" and accuses her of leading the country into "isolation". | |
| In Italy, La Repubblica's front page reads "Brexit: London raises its wall 'away from the EU and the single market'". | |
| France's Liberation remarks that Mrs May's comment that no deal is better than a bad one suggests that she is threatening to turn Britain into a tax haven. "If this is not blackmail, it looks a lot like it," it says. | |
| Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: "Ripping us out of the single market was not something proposed to the British people. This is a theft of democracy." | Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: "Ripping us out of the single market was not something proposed to the British people. This is a theft of democracy." |
| UKIP leader Paul Nuttall said he feared a "slow-motion Brexit", adding: "We want this done quickly." | UKIP leader Paul Nuttall said he feared a "slow-motion Brexit", adding: "We want this done quickly." |
| Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon claimed leaving the single market would be "economically catastrophic". | Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon claimed leaving the single market would be "economically catastrophic". |
| She hinted at a second independence referendum, saying Scotland - which voted against Brexit - should have "the ability to choose between that and a different future". | She hinted at a second independence referendum, saying Scotland - which voted against Brexit - should have "the ability to choose between that and a different future". |