Key momentsThe prime minister will unveil Britain’s deal with Brussels at the first UK-EU summit since BrexitNegotiations ran into the early hours as Brussels demanded long-term access to British fisheries
Talks ran into the early hours because Brussels was demanding to tie the deal’s food export arrangements to long-term access to British fisheries.
Britain has been prepared to extend existing fishing quotas, currently 75 per cent of pre-Brexit levels, for another four years. The EU was stipulating that any future attempt to renegotiate quotas would allow it to reopen the food standards deal, meaning it could threaten to reimpose border checks.
A deal resetting relations between Britain and the European Union is expected to be signed in London today after negotiations that ran into the early hours.
It will be signed by Sir Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, at the first UK-EU summit since Brexit.