Brexit talks - as it happened: Michel Barnier tells UK 'time has come to make a choice' on customs union
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After speaking with the Prime Minister over a working lunch, Michel Barnier then held a brief press conference with the Brexit Secretary David Davis.
He warned Ms May that trade barriers are “unavoidable” if she carries out her plan to leave the customs union, adding that “the time has come to make a choice”.
Mr Barnier also appeared to rebuff Mrs May’s apparent attempt to deny full settlement rights to EU citizens who arrive in the UK after Brexit day – but before the end of a transition period.
It comes as the Prime Minister prepares to meet her 11-member Brexit war-cabinet later this week to thrash out the Government’s vision for the so-called “end state”.
Reassuring Conservative Brexiteers on Sunday evening a Downing Street source insisted the UK would “categorically [be] leaving the customs union” after reports that Ms May had softened her stance.
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