Brexit: UK chief negotiator calls for 'realism' from EU
The transition period - which sees the UK following a number of the bloc's rules while a trade deal is negotiated - is due to end on 31 December and the two sides are trying to secure an agreement to take its place.
In an email to party members on Monday, the prime minister said if there was no agreement by that date,"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on".Lord Frost, who has been leading the UK's team of negotiators in talks since March, said he would be meeting his opposite number from the EU, Michel Barnier, on Tuesday at the start of the eighth round of talks between the two sides.
"As we have done from the beginning in public and in private, I will reinforce our simple, reasonable request for a free trade agreement based on those the EU has signed before with like-minded partners." Beyond all the talk, there is a genuine frustration in government that the EU is yet to treat the UK as if it were a fully sovereign country.But the bad tempers do not necessarily mean that a deal won't be reached.Read more from Laura
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