Anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray stands with a placard as he protests outside a conference centre in central London on December 4, 2020, as talks continue on a trade deal between the EU and the UK. / AFP / Niklas HALLE'N
London - Britain's government said Monday it was ready to revoke clauses in Brexit legislation that have provoked legal action by the EU in the fraught end-game of talks on a future trade deal.
In parallel to the trade talks, senior minister Michael Gove and European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic have been meeting "constructively" on implementing the existing UK-EU divorce treaty, the UK government said.
"Discussions continue to progress and final decisions are expected in the coming days," it said, as Gove and Sefcovic held another round of talks in Brussels.
"If the solutions being considered in those discussions are agreed," the government said it was prepared to remove three clauses from the Internal Market Bill that have provoked an EU court process because they would rewrite the divorce treaty.
The government also planned this week to introduce another treaty-breaching bill, to strip Brussels of any oversight over which goods are "at risk" of entering its single market via Northern Ireland from mainland Britain.
But it said the joint committee chaired by Gove and Sefcovic was making "good progress" on that front as well.
"In the light of those discussions, the government will keep under review the content of the forthcoming Taxation Bill," it said.
