NEGOTIATORS will today hunker down in Brussels in a desperate search of a Brexit breakthrough.
Intensive and secretive, the talks are a final bid to seal a new partnership agreement for when Britain’s transition out of the European Union runs its course at the end of this year.
Among the key sticking points are fishing and industrial subsidies.
If the talks fail an estimated £700 billion of annual bilateral trade in goods and services would be damaged from January 1 by tariffs and quotas.
But there is optimism that UK chief negotiator David Frost and Michel Barnier are closing in on a deal.
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