Brexit: EU threatens legal action against UK unless it rewrites internal market bill – as it happened

European commission says passing the bill would constitute extremely serious violation of withdrawal agreement and international law'. This live blog is now closed: for coronavirus updates, please follow the global live blog

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The UK is refusing to include indispensable guarantees of fair competition in our future agreement, while requesting free access to our market. We have taken note of the UK government's statement on A new approach to subsidy control". But this falls significantly short of the commitments made in the political declaration.

Similarly, we are still missing important guarantees on non-regression from social, environmental, labour and climate standards.

For there to be any future relationship between the EU and the UK, there must be mutual trust and confidence between us - today and in the future.

My statement following this week's negotiating round:https://t.co/ai1BHajsdM

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From the Telegraph's Harry Yorke

Now Lord Lamont, a former chancellor and prominent Brexiteer, is saying he doesn't think the Internal Market Bill can get through the Lords. pic.twitter.com/x5H2Kfj1Sz