EU27 rule out UK's preferred approach to future trade deal
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels and Jessica Elgot in Lon from on (#3GG53)
'Three basket approach' would breach agreement to prevent cherry-picking, says Brussels
The EU has ruled out the UK government's preferred approach to a future trade deal, describing it as a risk to the European project, just as Theresa May is seeking to strike an agreement on the way forward within her cabinet.
The inner cabinet is meeting at Chequers on Thursday to try to find an agreement among warring cabinet members on an approach sketched out to ministers by the prime minister's Brexit adviser, Olly Robbins.
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