UK ministers call for EU market access during Brexit transition

British finance minister Philip Hammond and Brexit minister David Davis have called in a German newspaper for Britain to retain its current access to EU markets for a transition period before its final exit from the European Union.The ministers, who are due to begin a visit to Germany on Wednesday, wrote in a guest article for Wednesday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that was also in the interests of Germany and the European Union.The transition period would start when Britain formally exits t