“Our friends in the EU are currently insisting
that if they pass a new law in future with which we in this country do not
comply or don’t follow suit, then they want the automatic right to punish us
and to retaliate.
And secondly they’re saying the UK should be the
only country in the world not to have sovereign control over its fishing
waters. I don’t believe that those are terms that any prime minister of this
country should accept.”
Johnson’s stance was warmly welcomed by
Conservative MPs, and any Tory backbenchers who are fearful of the consequences
of no deal have not been expressing their reservations in public. Many
observers still think that ultimately both sides will negotiate a compromise,
but Johnson’s performance at PMQs will have reassured the sovereignty purists
on his own side for whom this would be unacceptable. Tonight’s meeting is being
billed as a conversation, not a negotiation, and almost certainly it will not
culminate in the announcement of a deal. There may well be an agreement to
allow talks to resume at negotiator level, although if Johnson and Von der
Leyen conclude that consensus is impossible, they could tell Europe to prepare
for no deal.
Angela Merkel has said the major obstacle to a
Brexit deal is not access to British fishing waters but future regulatory
standards in the UK, adding that she expects the talks to continue for days to
come.
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