Michael Gove has put the chances of a Brexit deal at 66% amid fresh optimism over a breakthrough on the dispute over state aid, one of the key sticking points in negotiations. The chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster said the high percentage chance of a deal “sounded about right” when pressed about the talks during a session of parliament’s Brexit select committee. But experts seized on remarks made by the UK negotiator Lord Frost at the same meeting over a potential state aid dispute resolution mechanism. “I imagine we will be as assiduous users of it [dispute resolution] as the EU will be,” Frost said. He declined to detail how this governance mechanism would work but the fact it was mentioned formally was seen as new.
Sep 2020. The UK and the Brexit Deal
