well after leaving the European Union
last Friday the United Kingdom is now in
a so-called transition period until the
end of the year as the long term future
relationship with the EU is negotiated
today the Prime Minister made his first
major speech on brexit since the general
election and at the same time Michel
Barnier the lead negotiator for the EU
outlined his position as our political
editor Laura Coons Berg explains Boris
Johnson insisted there was no need to
follow rules but critics say that his
plans are unrealistic the site stood
watch over our fortunes for more than
300 years times the 18th century
captured flamboyantly on the ceiling of
the Royal Naval College by the Thames
this is it this is the newly forged
United Kingdom looking down on the Prime
Minister hoping for his own glory we've
made a choice we want a comprehensive
free trade agreement similar to Canada's
but in the unlikely event that we do not
succeed then our trade will have to be
based on our existing withdrawal
agreement with the EU
that could mean taxes on imports and
customs checks more autonomy for the UK
though and a clear no to being bound by
EU rules I dispel the absurd caricature
of Britain as a nation bent on the slash
and burn of workers rights and
environmental protection as if we are
saved from Dickensian squalor only by
enlightened EU regulation as even was
only thanks to Brussels they were not
preparing to send children back up
chimneys on a rival platform on the
other side of the channel we are ready
to offer the highly ambitious trade deal
the more we have common standards there
are your quality access due you will be
able to offer to its markets but this
will be up to the UK to decide in other
words the --use message to Boris Johnson
the more you want to tack away the
harder it will be to do business
if it is a choice between no
comprehensive deal or sticking to EU
rules you've suggested you would rather
have no comprehensive deal but do you
accept that that might have significant
costs for jobs businesses and people's
prosperities as well as the benefits
that you claim there might be when I
hear prophecies of doom I've heard them
I've heard them before I don't believe
in them this is a fantastic ly robust a
dynamic economy and will continue to be
so it will be not easy but obviously
it's good for everybody if there is a
good deal at the end
he's got the chamber to put it together
this is about how we do business with
the EU and the rest of the world in
years to come the Prime Minister
believes for a brexit to be worth it we
have to be able to do things differently
but the EU reckons for access to their
markets we ought to stick closely to
their rules and that's the clash but in
truth this is the beginning of what will
be 11 months of hard bargaining and as
you might expect at this stage there's
an awful lot of chest-beating going on
the Prime Minister didn't even want to
mention the word brexit today but you
can't avoid the fact just a few days on
there's plenty of argument over our
place in the world that's yet to come
Laura Coons Burak BBC news with me is
our economics editor Faisal Islam let's
talk about trade Faisal where are we
right now so we've left but just how far
we depart depends on this negotiation
right now the UK and EU regulations are
perfectly aligned but broadly speaking
as they diverge we have more of a room
to change our rules regulations trade
deals but also the flip side of that is
that it makes more complicated our
current seamless trade with the EU so
that's the sort of parameter of the
choice when people talk about a Canada
style deal how realistic is that and
what do they mean by it what they mean
by that is the sort of deal the EU has
with Canada which has checks on
regulations at the border but in broad
terms means that you do away with taxes
on trade tariffs for goods
has a weak set of common standards a
level playing field now that's what the
UK thought it is negotiated in the
renegotiation of Boris Johnson what you
said today is that what goes for Canada
can't go for the UK it's too close to
bigger shared economy and that it would
have to have a very strong set of level
playing field particularly on supports
for industry and for those people who
talk about you know the I suppose the
ideal of an Australian model what do you
make of that sounds very sunny doesn't
actually exist because there is no deal
between Australia and the EU and that
means serious tariffs on serious
industries car industry food industry
that would have an impact this is a
method through which the government can
sugarcoat the idea of there being no
trade deal something that they pretty
much said wouldn't happen but is
possible if we reject the idea of
alignment for a Kerala style deal faisal
once again thanks very much i said it's
on there i can only set it up