The Telegraph understands that UK and EU negotiators will meet in Brussels this week for crunch talks on how Britain can still benefit from EU’s free trade deals after Brexit when it is no longer legally a full member of the EU. Sources with knowledge of the talks said significant gaps remain between the two sides.
Under plans being discussed by the European Commission, the EU would simply send a diplomatic letter, or “note verbale”, telling its trade partners that the UK will be bound to follow EU law [...]