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A group of Brexiteers have launched their proposals for a free trade agreement between the UK and EU, claiming it will produce the “most advanced and liberalising” conditions ever seen.

With time running out, Parliament’s half term break has been cancelled. Meanwhile, Labour MPs who say they will back Theresa May’s deal have been branded “cowards and facilitators” by another MP from their own party.

From hard Brexit and hard borders, to soft Brexit or the Chequers deal – here’s everything you need to know.

There are still days to go before the special Chequers Cabinet meeting on Brexit – but  Europe’s politicians are getting impatient. At lunch today in The Hague the Dutch Prime Minister told Theresa May it was now time provide clarity on “every aspect” of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. The pressure is mounting in…

Tens of thousands of anti-Brexit campaigners have marched through central London on the second anniversary of the vote to take Britain out of the EU – demanding another referendum on any final Brexit deal. But if pro-Brexit government cabinet ministers have their way – there could be no deal at all. And it’s been reported…

The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy says Britain is at the intellectual heart of Europe and needs to stay there. And he’s putting his views on stage. Last Exit Before Brexit depicts a speechwriter who has to give a keynote address at a conference about Brexit and can’t manage to write it.

MPs will only get one day to discuss and vote on all 15 Lords amendments to the EU withdrawal bill, after the government decided to cram the entire bill into a single session. Critics have accused the Prime Minister of trying to “railroad” her plans through parliament.

President Trump has fired the opening salvoes in a trade war, but the European Union hasn’t quite returned fire yet. While retaliatory tariffs have been proposed, but not so far imposed, the EU Trade Commissioner had firm words, calling the US levies on European steel and aluminium “protectionist” and “illegal”. She wasn’t alone… France’s President Macron…

Susan Danger is from the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU in Brussels, and Robert Scott is from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

British steel and aluminium will be priced out of the American market, after President Trump delivers on his campaign promise. Canada and Mexico join Europe as the latest targets. A retaliation is now unfolding as we speak, and there are fears tonight of a wider trade conflict.With Europe and America already at loggerheads over trade…

Labour MP Stephen Kinnock tells us that President Trump’s ‘blunderbuss’ approach to trade is ‘utterly reckless’.

Fresh from his Washington trip, the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has criticised Downing Street’s favoured proposal for a post-Brexit customs partnership. “Crazy” was the epithet he chose to describe the plan. On top of that, a vote in the House of Lords further threatens to derail the government’s hopes of a smooth journey to Brexit…