13 July, 2017
The British government is set to publish a bill on Thursday which will end the supremacy of the European Union (EU) law in the United Kingdom, the media reported.
The government has insisted it will be a limited power to correct minor issues in the law and it is understood the number of new regulators required is estimated to be in single figures.
Responding to Corbyn, Conservative MP James Cleverly said, "Jeremy Corbyn wouldn't negotiate in Brexit talks, he would surrender".
"I am not hearing any whistling, just a clock ticking", Barnier said.
He was also due to meet European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans and the head of three United Kingdom representation in Brussels, as well as representatives of European Socialist parties.
Speaking after briefing European Commissioners in Brussels, Mr Barnier insisted the United Kingdom must honour its monetary commitments.
"These three priority subjects for the first phase of negotiations are inseparable". After all, the House of Lords' EU Financial Affairs Committee have said that walking away without paying a penny is, legally speaking, an option; the "strictly legal position of the United Kingdom on this issue appears to be strong", their report makes clear.
More than three months since Britain officially triggered the start of Brexit talks and the two-year countdown to the U.K.'s departure began, the European Union is still confused about what Britain's red lines are and where it will compromise. The second was the UK's financial obligations to the bloc ahead of its departure and the third the situation of Northern Ireland. "The British position as it now standsdoes not allow for that reciprocity".
'And there I think it is legitimate to offer guarantees of those rights on both sides within a European framework'.
He stressed that the issue of the financial settlement is of "major importance" as it will create the basis needed to negotiate the future relationship.
"On the single financial settlement, it is essential that the United Kingdom recognise the existence of financial obligations which are simply a result of the period in which they were members of the European Union", he said.
Politicians will then gradually work their way through the laws to decide which to keep and which to amend or scrap altogether.
The Foreign Secretary yesterday said the European Union can "go whistle" as the United Kingdom will not pay "extortionate" amounts in a divorce bill amid suggestions it could cost as much as 100 billion euros (£89billion).
British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels on Thursday (July 13), a move that risks further undermining Prime Minister Theresa May's fragile government.
"There is no question we are a British institution", he said.
"We need to engage substantially in all the issues in the first phase of the negotiations", Barnier said.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested that the bill, which covers outstanding liabilities for programmes which the United Kingdom signed up to as an EU member, as well as ongoing costs including staff pensions, could be around £50 billion, while unconfirmed reports have claimed it could reach nearly twice that figure. And may I remind you, no one voted to leave the EU to join a second-best European economic unit? This means they can not be used to enact changes in government policy.
This will start the process of unpicking all the EU legislation, by repealing the 1972 European Communities Act, which took Britain into the EU and meant that European law took precedence over laws passed in the British parliament. They have already sent nine such papers on specific divorce issues.
