02-08-2018 17:15 via theguardian.com

UK Brexit team seeks to exploit EU concern over Corbyn state aid plans

Exclusive: Chequers plan ties future governments to EU rules on subsidies, negotiators sayBritain’s Brexit negotiators have tapped into growing concerns in Brussels over Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for the British economy, by stressing in recent talks that the Chequers plan would tie any future prime minister to the EU’s evolving rules on state aid in perpetuity, according to EU sources.The anger of Conservative party Brexiters has focused on the plan to maintain EU regulations in re
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