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A television crew has entered the prime minister’s residence, where Johnson is expected to make a statement to the nation at this time. The announcement is expected after a last phone call between Prime Minister Tory himself and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, aimed at sanctioning the final approval of the agreement text, on which the two negotiating teams led by Michel Barnier and Lord David Frost have continued to work frantically in Brussels all night until today.
Pending the official announcement on the deal, he has already rushed to submit opposing victory reports. To France, which in the evening evoked key supposed “concessions” from London on the residual fish record, the Boris Johnson government responds by flatly denying the rebuilding of Paris on this point. Although a document appears on the sensationalist site GuidoFawkes, presented as a kind of internal circular shared yesterday by Downing Street with the different British ministries, which highlights a more than positive negotiation balance for the Tory government: even if only in based on the initial points of beginning of the negotiation and on the unfavorable balance of power of the island in front of the 27 countries represented by Brussels.
According to this table, reports Ansa, out of 65 key issues taken into consideration, the Kingdom will bring home 43% of the negotiation “victories”, against 40% of the mutual commitments and only 17% of the net “defeats” versus EU requests. On fishing, the end result appears to be a draw (with the guaranteed European fish quota in British waters dropping to 25%, but unable to be renegotiated for 5 and a half years and not just 3, despite the recovery of control of the sea and the laws announced by London); while the negotiators of the Johnson government led by David Frost would have won in key aspects of governance in future litigation (excluding any jurisdiction of the European Court), in technical customs barriers at the border, in the future decoupling of legal and financial services, on a certain independence in the tax model. He claims that fact-checking by analysts at Bloomberg and the Financial Times, however, only partially confirms.
With Sam Lowe, firm of the FT, who on Twitter recognizes as “legitimate” the satisfaction of the conservative government on a more limited, although significant, set of issues: the fact that the agreement does not seem to provide for “a dynamic alignment” to the rules . European Union (on state aid, protection of workers and the environment, product quality, etc.) within the so-called playing field to ensure future jurisdiction over the exclusion of the Court of Justice of the European Communities from any litigation that may arise in the future; on limiting the EU’s automatic right to hypothetical post-Brexit trade retaliation; on symbolic aspects of the recovery of control of territorial waters over fishing.
