The EU’s chief negotiator has insisted actual progress on Britain’s divorce bill, citizens’ rights and the Irish border is “essential” earlier than discussing a transitional deal. Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK wouldn’t seek permanent membership of the one market or the customs union after leaving the EU 4 5 and promised to repeal the European Communities Act of 1972 and incorporate existing European Union legislation into UK domestic law 6 A brand new authorities division, the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), was created in July 2016, with Eurosceptic David Davis appointed its first Secretary of … Read the rest