Brexit: Won't accept EU-ruled 'level playing field', warns UK

Britain's tre negotiator warned on Monday that his government would t accept EU supervision of its ecomy in exchange for close tre ties. Senior diplomat Mark Frost told acemics in Brussels that London intended to set its own laws following Brexit and t follow EU-imposed "level playing field" rules.

EU Members want EU-supervised regulations

"It isn't a simple negotiating position which might move under pressure -- it is point of whole project," he said. Frost's speech at Free University of Brussels took place as EU member states were drawing up a mandate for ir own negotiator, Michel Barnier.

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Some capitals, in particular France, are pushing for a deal in which Britain would have to sign up to EU-supervised regulation in exchange for privileged access to huge European single market. But Frost, ding detail to position championed by British prime minister Boris Johnson, said London wanted a typical tre deal of kind Brussels signed with Cana.

"It is central to our vision that we must have ability to set laws that suit us -- to claim right that every or n-EU country in world has," Frost said. "So to think that we might accept EU supervision on so-called level playing field issues simply fails to see point of what we are doing." 

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