Britain, EU Clinch Brexit Agreement On How To Move Forward On Trade Talks

Daily Mail: 'We can now move on to the next stage of humiliation' says Farage as May FINALLY gets a breakthrough on EU divorce - but faces Tory fury at £40bn bill and meddling by European judges

* Theresa May has finally secured breakthrough in efforts to secure deal with EU
* Negotiators worked overnight to finalise agreement with Ireland, DUP and EU
* PM travelled to Brussels to meet Jean-Claude Juncker and confirmed the deal
* May kept vow to 'align' rules with EU so there is no hard Irish border after Brexit
* But appeased DUP concerns by including explicit commitments to protect union
* Nigel Farage jibed that the agreement paved the way for the 'next humiliation'
* EU leaders are now set to sign off starting trade talks at a summit next week

Theresa May today defended making a slew of concessions to the EU as she finally struck a deal to unlock trade talks.

After a frantic night of negotiations, a bleary-eyed PM and Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed the 'breakthrough' had been achieved at an early morning press conference.

Mrs May said the settlement was 'in the best interests of the whole country', while the DUP - which torpedoed an earlier version on Monday complaining that efforts to avoid a hard Irish border could tear the UK apart - said it was now satisfied after explicit commitments were made to protect the union.

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