Tag: Sir Keir Starmer

• Tuesday, August 15th 2017 - 14:52 UTC

  UK wants to secure a post-Brexit “ambitious new customs arrangement” with the EU

  

  The UK has set out the “ambitious new customs arrangement” it wants to secure with the EU after Brexit. Ministers said the plans would mean the “freest and most frictionless possible trade” with the rest of Europe and could include a “temporary customs union” after Brexit to prevent border problems as the UK leaves the EU.

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 14:53 UTC

  Hammond admits post-Brexit transitional deal up, but until general election in 2022

  

  Any “transitional deal” in the period after Brexit must end by June 2022, the time of the next general election, Philip Hammond has said. But the chancellor said there must be “business as usual, life as normal” for Britons as the UK left the EU.