Via Reuters

Via Reuters
  • UK PM Johnson says backstop prevents UK diverging on huge range of industrial standards, we may want to regulate differently
  • UK PM Johnson says a large number of the important players want a deal including UK, Germany, Ireland and France,
  • PM Johnson says very encouraging that colleagues in EU no longer have an attachment to the backstop
  • In order to get a deal we need to change the existing agreement
  • Progress has been made, but there are still gaps (before a deal can be struck)

GBPUSD suitably unfazed on these breaking headlines from PM Johnson. GBPUSD at 1.24798