The Guardian: David Davis says EU cannot 'cherry pick' terms of free trade deal

02 January 2018

Britain wants “the full sweep of economic cooperation” and financial services must not be excluded from any agreement, Davis said.

Davis has hit back, claiming that a deal that took some areas of the current economic relationship but not others would be “cherrypicking”.

In an article for the Daily Telegraph, he wrote: “I do not believe the strength of this cooperation needs to change because we are leaving the European Union.

“Many of these principles can be applied to services trade too. Given the strength and breadth of the pan-European economic relationship, a deal that took in some areas of our economic relationship but not others would be, in the favoured phrase of EU diplomats, cherrypicking.” [...]

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David Davis' article on The Telegraph: How we will deliver the best Brexit in 2018 (subscription required)

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