Britain has to “rebuild everything” in its relationship with the European Union once it leaves the bloc later this week, the Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday. “If we have no agreement, it will not be business as usual and the status quo. Barnier said he would present a draft negotiating mandate to the bloc’s member states next Monday. No piecemeal solutionVaradkar argued the bloc was in “a very strong position” in the talks given the remaining 27 members’ collective size compared to Britain. “We have a population of 450 million people and the single market is the largest economy in the world,” he said.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2020 11:48 UTC