'Chequers plan is dead,' says MP, who reported rejection by Barnier

EU negotiator was clear May’s proposal was unacceptable, says MP Stephen Kinnock

Theresa May’s Brexit plan was left mired in uncertainty after reports that the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, told British MPs that “les propositions sont mortes” in a Brussels meeting.

The Labour MP Stephen Kinnock revealed that in talks this week Barnier had declared the Chequers proposals “dead” and suggested that there was a fundamental misunderstanding in the UK about how the single market worked.

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