No deal complications

The European Union will agree a tariff-free trade deal with the UK – and it will not run into the same difficulties faced by the troubled Canadian pact, a Cabinet minister has insisted.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the amount of trade done between the UK and EU puts it in a different category to the Canadian deal – blocked by the Belgian regional parliament.

Speaking on BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, he played down the prospect of the Walloons forming a similar obstacle to the UK’s negotiations because of the amount of produce their farmers sell to Britain.

Crisis talks have attempted to break the deadlock over the opposition to the EUCanada CETA deal.

Picture: PA. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.