Trade talks will not start until February at earliest, EU tells UK

Michel Barnier made it clear that Britain could only expect a post-Brexit trade deal along the lines of that recently agreed with Canada.The EU has told Theresa May it will not start discussing the terms of a trade relationship with the UK until February at the earliest, and only then if the British prime minister has taken a grip of her divided cabinet and come up with an agreed vision of the future.While May was being lauded by her ministers in London on Friday, EU officials in Brussels said t