Hammond and Davis Insist German and U.K. Views Not Incompatible
- May cabinet officials write guest commentary ahead of visit
- U.K., allies must seek ‘imaginative and inventive’ standards
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Germany’s view that the U.K. can’t retain European Union membership benefits when it leaves the bloc is “not incompatible” with Britain’s perspective, two top leaders from Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet wrote in a guest column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis and Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, will seek an audience with German officials and business leaders during a visit to the country this week. The two called for “imaginative and inventive” standards to be applied to new economic relationships between the U.K. and the remaining 27 EU member states, according to the column.