Brexit - as it happened: David Davis hails 'significant step' as UK and EU strike draft transition deal
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Your support makes all the difference.Brexit Secretary David Davis has hailed a "significant step" in negotiations as the EU and the UK agreed the terms of a transition period after Britain leaves the bloc.
Speaking alongside his EU counterpart Michel Barnier in Brussels, Mr Davis said the Britain would be allowed to sign its own trade deals during the transition but conceded that it would allow full free movement rights for EU citizens who arrive during the period.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also won support from EU leaders on a visit to Brussels after accusing Russia of breaching international law by secretly stockpiling a deadly nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack.
It comes as international inspectors arrived in the UK to examine samples used in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, which ministers believe contain a Russian-made agent known as Novichok.
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Interesting tweets from Scottish Tory MP John Lamont, who says he will vote down a Brexit deal that fails to offer the UK complete control over fishing.
The Salisbury nerve agent attack has "mobilised the nation, increased turnout, and has consolidated citizens around Vladimir Putin,” Russia has claimed.
Almost as soon as the polls had closed, Andrei Kondrashov, spokesman for Mr Putin’s election campaign, drew a direct line between the victory and the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal.
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The drop of roughly 5 per cent means that around $25 billion has been lost from the company's market value. MPs are due to discuss the data breach this afternoon in the Commons.
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John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, is asking an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the issue of dirty money being laundered in the UK. He asks the Government to bring forward the introduction of a public register of property owned by people living overseas. It is currently scheduled for 2011.
Ben Wallace, the security minister, says the Government has already introduced a range of measures to try to clamp down on fraud.
He says the Government is introducing so many new measures to tackle criminal finance that it does not have time to get them all through Parliament immediately.
Criticising Mr McDonnell, he adds: "What this is really about is a distraction by the Labour Party from its woeful response [to the Salisbury poisoning attack]".
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Public Accounts Committee, asks about tier 1 investor visas, which are given to people who can demonstrate they want to invest at least £2m in the UK.
"How can we guarantee that this money isn't dirty money?" she asks.
Minister Ben Wallace says the Government is looking at the issue and will introduce "better due diligence, if we need to, on where the money comes from".
Russians cannot be treated "in a blanket method", he says, adding: "There are legitimate Russians who come to invest in this country."
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