In a rebuke of Prime Minister Theresa May's preferred plan for leaving the EU , former-foreign secretary Johnson has said the Canada government should "chuck Chequers". Instead, Johnson backed an agreement similar to one the EU has with Canada . The arrangement would include at least one tariffs and quotas, while mutual recognition agreements would future-proof regulatory alignment between the UK and EU , according to Johnson . The negative-list approach would be used to include "extensive provisions on services", he added. There would also be no need for a hard British border as the few checks required would be carried out remotely.
In a rebuke of Prime Minister Theresa May's preferred plan for leaving the EU, former-foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said the UK government should "chuck Chequers". Instead, Johnson backed an agreement similar to one the EU has with Canada. The arrangement would include zero tariffs and quotas, while mutual recognition agreements would future-proof regulatory alignment between the UK and EU, according to Johnson. The negative-list approach would be used to include "extensive provisions on services", he added. There would also be no need for a hard Irish border as the few checks required would be carried out remotely.