Two statements out today with the EU surrender summit. A “Joint Statement” on a new geopolitical “Strategic Partnership” and a “Common Understanding” with more nuts and bolt agreements on rule taking and so on. Read them below:
UPDATE: Defence and security partnership deal below:
UPDATE II:
E-gates haven’t even been agreed in full yet. Downing Street:
“All commission-based reasons for not doing it have been eliminated. Holidaymakers want it to be done this summer… we need to push hard and fast on these things now.”
Speaking about Morgan McSweeney’s resignation, skills minister Jacqui Smith told Times Radio:
“It’s clearly not ideal but I do understand why Morgan, as he explained, decided to resign at this point. But the important thing as you say is how we both tackle what this Epstein and Mandelson scandal has identified and also how we make sure, as the prime minister is absolutely determined to, that we continue the change that the country needs and that’s what I’m focusing on this morning.”