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Date: 2017-10-29

UK News 'The EU won't talk to us for three more months!' Frustrated Brexit MP demands no deal NOW 

OWEN Paterson has demanded the British Government stop blindly following the EU and take back the initiative and power in the Brexit talks by confirming a no-deal scenario.

The leading Brexiteer has lambasted the EU for their "flat refusal to negotiate" and urged the British Government to wake up to this fact.

As a Brexit no-deal scenario becomes ever more likely, Owen Paterson has claimed the UK side needed to start preparing for this inevitability of walking away from negotiations without an agreement.

Speaking to Sky News this morning, Mr Paterson said the scaremongering about a no-deal was "all rather dramatic talk" and not based in reality.

The Tory MP told Niall Paterson: "The point about triggering the World Trade Organisation (WTO) issue now is not jumping off a cliff.

"This is not some mad, crazy overreaction to fact that the talks haven’t started

"It is just being very prudent that we should take out an insurance policy that will give clarity to all our administrators, it will give clarity to all business."

He said the EU's strategy was intent on punishing Britain, which was clearer than ever given the future timeline of Brexit talks.

Mr Pateron said: "They have said now we are going to miss the whole of November, we’re not going to talk about trade unless they graciously concede it in the middle of December, so we’ll miss most of December, we won’t start talking to them until January and that is effectively three months. We should be getting on with this."



Laying out his own approach to the Brexit talks, Mr Paterson said David Davis should tell Michel Barnier that, given their stubborn attitude, we will be moving to WTO rule terms from 30th March 2019

He said: "Should they then come back to us and want to talk about an all-encompassing free trade deal, that would be great.

"They are the ones who have this huge 71.8 billion surplus with us, they’re the ones who will get clobbered by tariffs should we impose tariffs."

The prominent Brexit campaigner said Customs and Excise would benefit from a confirmation of WTO rules because the Government can then invest properly in this field. news today fox news breaking news president trump press 
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