Germany denies Brexit deal offer rumours from Remain group

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Sharecast News | 02 Aug, 2018

Updated : 15:45

German officials have denied the European Union would offer a vague Brexit deal proposal to save the UK from crashing out of the bloc empty handed, according to reports.

As fears of a no-deal Brexit increase, reports from the former Remain campaign, now the People’s Vote, said the EU might offer British negotiators an alternative vague proposal for a deal if France and Germany were to approve.

While a potential deal, nicknamed “blind Brexit”, could save May’s position as leader of the Conservative party and might postpone the solutions to key issues past the exit date in 2019, German sources told the Guardian the rumours were false.

They also added that there had been no instructions to back a vague Brexit deal but they would request clear agreements on future trade and security cooperation in any case.

Chris Leslie MP of UK's People's Vote said: "A blind Brexit would take the UK to the same place as a no-deal Brexit, but without the clarity. The idea that the fundamental contradictions of the government's Brexit policy can be more easily resolved after the UK has left the EU is simply ludicrous."

Earlier this week, UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt called on France and Germany to intervene in the Brexit negotiations to push them forward.

“France and Germany have to send a strong signal to the commission that we need to negotiate a pragmatic and sensible outcome that protects jobs on both sides of the Channel, because for every job lost in the UK, there will be jobs lost in Europe as well if Brexit goes wrong," Hunt said.

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