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Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski welcomed the Prime Minister’s tough stance and his promise to “embrace the alternative and we will powerfully prosper as an independent free-trade nation, controlling and establishing our own laws.”
Kawczynski tweeted: “A UK government source says Lord Frost has spoken to Barnier and told him not to bother coming to London on Monday for further talks.
“Finally, for the first time in my life, we have a country on our continent prepared to face these thugs. Thank you Lord!”
Jacob Rees-Mogg also supported Mr. Johnsons’ hard-line approach to EU demands on fisheries, state aid and dispute resolution.
The senior Brexiteer said: “The EU must understand that the UK is not asking to be a vassal state.”
Former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan said the prime minister had no choice in the face of the EU’s refusal to commit.
He said: “I expected and believed that the EU would act in the interests of its 27 members and agree to a mutually beneficial agreement. I was wrong.
“Boris had no choice but to leave and prepare for a deal.
“We should now formally notify that we are canceling the withdrawal agreement.”
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage also praised the prime minister.
He said: “A Canada-style deal was always impossible given the withdrawal agreement. Boris is now coming up with the right solution.”
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8:31 am update: EU diplomats dismiss Boris Johnson’s stance as rhetoric
Diplomats and EU officials have dismissed Boris Johnson’s call to prepare for a no-deal Brexit as little more than rhetoric, describing it as a frantic attempt to secure concessions before a last-minute deal is reached.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he thought Johnson had signaled that London was ready for a compromise.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she was still eager to reach an agreement, but that French President Emmanuel Macron was depressed.
He said: “The state of our talks is not that we are stumbling over the fisheries issue, which is the British tactical argument, but that we are stumbling over everything. Everything.
“The remaining 27 EU leaders, who chose to remain in the EU, are not there simply to make the British prime minister happy.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Britain for a compromise.
But he added: “Of course, this means that we too will have to make concessions.”
Downing Street said Lord Frost and Michel Barnier had agreed to speak again early next week.
8.03am update: Brexit supporters back Boris’s bold position on the EU
An Express.co.uk poll found that a staggering 97 percent of readers have supported Boris Johnson’s decision to walk away from the negotiating table without a deal.
A total of 9,791 people participated in the online survey and 9,400 said they thought the prime minister was right to follow through on his threat to dismiss any future conversations.
7:30 am update: Moody’s downgrades UK credit status due to Brexit uncertainty
Britain’s credit status has been downgraded by rating agency Moody’s, who cited falling economic strength due to the pandemic and uncertainty about Brexit.
Moody’s downgraded the sovereign debt rating one mark from Aa3 to Aa2, but the agency said the “negative” outlook attached to the rating had been moved to “stable” before an expected stabilization of the overall debt burden next year.
But he warned that “lingering Brexit uncertainty” was expected to delay the UK’s recovery.
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