The draft U.K.-EU agreement is one of several being drawn up ahead of a May 19 summit.

Britain and the European Union are set to sign a formal declaration committing to “free and open trade” in defiance of Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.

A leaked draft seen by POLITICO promises a “new strategic partnership” between London and Brussels based on “maintaining global economic stability and our mutual commitment to free and open trade.”

It comes as Keir Starmer’s U.K. government is locked in negotiations with the Trump administration to try to get a carve-out from the U.S. president’s new tariffs.

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    Yes please!! Resist this fucker! Destroy his self image and make him crumble into himself! We will suffer regardless so I pray that we at least get to watch KRASNOV get played for a fool! Wahaha

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    Lol that’s actually stupid funny.

    Trump & Co. Managed to piss off UK and EU enough that they said “know what, let bygones be bygones, fuck the US”

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      Unless the new Treaty properly covers Services and hence includes Freedom Of Movement (which is required for suppliers in one country to freely provide services which cannot be remotelly provided in other countries), not really.

      One of the biggest arguments of the Brexiters was to be able to get rid of Freedom Of Movement so that they didn’t have to accepts all immigrants from the EU (all of which with time ended up with the funny outcome that now Britain still gets as many immigrants coming in as they did when part of the EU, only now they’re almost all non-white something which the Brexiters - who are almost invariably racist - find even more distasteful).

      I very much doubt that the current, New Labour, government who are maybe the most rightwing Labour government ever and have even been blowing a couple of far-right anti-immigration dog-whistles will be accepting the return of Freedom Of Movement.

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    Free. Commerce. Eu. Uk.

    i’m still working on it, but i think it’s going to form an acronym that says “f.u.c.k. t.r.u.m.p”

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    It’s nice to see the UK and EU getting so integrated. I’m not an expert, so I’m wondering if this could be the closest their partnership has been in recent years.

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          Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won’t because they could win again, and it’s party before country.

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      People have moved closer to the middle from both sides, but the average has moved to it being bad.

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        Whilst we’re still fighting those that caused Brexit I think we need to be careful of introducing instability with “in again / out again” policy swings. I think we’re best aiming at something which removes barriers but doesn’t stir up the anti EU sentiment that still exists.

        Alignment, deals, treaties, but not membership.