May’s Cabinet meeting won’t lead to ‘final answer’, says Davis

THE Government is unlikely to agree a final position on Brexit when a key meeting of Cabinet ministers ends this week, David Davis has suggested.

Theresa May is gathering her top team at Chequers tomorrow to establish what the UK’S relationship with the EU should be after Brexit.

But speaking in Vienna the Brexit secretary appeared to undermine her. When asked if there would be agreement, he said there was no “final answer”. Brussels has repeatedly called on Mrs May to set out what Britain wants. Last week Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, had to deny claims that she had been left “frustrated” at the lack of concrete plans.

Mr Davis has been travelling in Europe, meeting ministers and business leaders, to quell talk that the UK wanted to crash out of the union and ditch EU rules that governed the current relationship.

Mr Davis said the UK would lead “a race to the top in global standards” rather than a “Mad Max-style” dystopian future.

Asked whether the Government will have agreed its final position on Brexit by the end of the away-day meeting on Thursday, he suggested this was unlikely. He said: “The difficulty with answering the question is that there is no final answer.”