The demands by the French President and Finnish Prime Minister for a formal Brexit plan by the end of the month have been rebuffed by Downing Street saying that the UK will table its proposals when we're ready to do so!
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The government has rejected the French and Finnish deadline for tabling written Brexit proposals by the end of September, with a government spokesman saying:
"We have been having detailed discussions with the commission’s Taskforce 50 in recent weeks. We have now shared in written form a series of confidential technical non-papers which reflect the ideas the UK has been putting forward. We will table formal written solutions when we are ready, not according to an artificial deadline, and when the EU is clear that it will engage constructively on them as a replacement for the backstop."
So, basically it's we'll let you know when we're ready, not before.
Now, these 'non-papers' as they are called, are a method of floating ideas for discussion but without making any commitments.
But the EU now wants a firm, formal, written position that it can presumably leak to the press then watch our own UK Remainers do their best to rubbish it, while stepping in occasionally to add their tuppence worth.
The UK Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay has told business leaders in Madrid that more flexibility was needed by the EU to strike a deal and that some risks needed to be taken by them.
"A rigid approach now at this point is no way to progress a deal," he said. "and the responsibility sits with..
