David Davis, the Brexit minister came out with some comments this morning as following:
- UK may not need to pay the cost of acceding to the customs union during the transition period after Brexit.
- Negotiations are likely to see a lot of turmoil.
- Negotiations will face difficulties in getting a good deal for Brexit.
- The transition period must be concluded by next elections.
- It is hard to know how long the transitional period would last, but it is likely to be 2 years.
- The EU would adversely affected by the absence of customs agreement after Brexit.
- UK will not continue to pay 10 billion euros as a contribution, as now.
- The European Court of Justice will not be the judge of the interim customs agreement.
- There will sometimes be ambiguity during negotiations.