Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt urges Theresa May to SACK Boris Johnson to get trade talks moving

Brexit botherer Guy Verhofstadt has told Mrs May that
she needs to control the Brexiteer if she wants to start
trade negotiations with the EU before the Christmas
deadline.
The Prime Minister was warned by the MEP that she
had to disregard Mr Johnson by making changes
before the next summit in December.
The European Parliament’s chief negotiator told The
Mail on Sunday that Mrs May should call the bluff of
the “increasingly desperate Brexiteers” and “outline
once and for all, what kind of future relationship the
country wants with the European Union.”
He added: “This may require Theresa May to face
down Boris Johnson and others in her own party who
refuse to accept the reality of the brevet they
campaigned for.
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“Brexiteers failed to outline the extent of UK liabilities
in Europe.
“Nevertheless, what is clear is that it will not be the
taxpayers of the European Union who pay Britain’s bar
bill.”
The warning came amid David Davis’ latest antics
where he met with anti-EU Labour MPs in private to
plead with them to help to pass key Brexit legislation.
Liberal Democrat leader, Vince Cable, also produced
new researched which claims a no deal would cost the
UK as much as £430 billion.
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The EU is expected to say that they will start
internal preparatory work on a post-Brexit transition
period and a future trade deal with Britain
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EU leaders set out that trade negotiations will not
begin until Mrs May increased the offer on the ‘divorce
bill’.
As talks intensify Mr Davis will attempt to make a
breakthrough with French President Emmanuel
Macron’s administration in Paris on Monday.
The Brexit Secretary will have dinner with French
foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in the UK’s latest
attempt to get the green-light for Brexit negotiations.
The Prime Minister has so far suggested a pledge of
around £18 billion to the divorce bill.
However, President Macron suggested at this week's
European Council summit the bill could be over £36
billion (€40 billion).
He said that the UK’s indication that they could offer
around £18 billion (€20billion) did not go halfway to
what was required.
But Mr Johnson, who set out his ‘Brexit blueprint’ in
the Daily Telegraph last month, believes the bill should
be no more than £10 billion.
This comes after concerns across Europe have grown
that the Foreign Secretary could unseat Mrs May.
A move which could play to Mr Johnosn's advantage
with pro-Brexit Tory MPs impressed by his ability to
strike fear into foreign ministries.
Johnson set out his ‘Brexit blueprint’ in the Telegraph
A senior EU source said: "He is regarded here as a
joke, but a dangerous one. We have managed to pretty
much avoid him as Foreign Secretary, but we wouldn’t
be able to if he was your Prime Minister."
Mrs May will tell Parliament on Monday that she will
continue to “put people first” in the on-going Brexit
talks.
She is expected to tell fellow MPs: “The negotiations
are complicated and deeply technical but in the end,
they are about people and I am determined that we
will put people first.”

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