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US proposals for a trade deal with the UK after Brexit would lower food standards, increase NHS costs and bankrupt British farmers.

To give us a trade deal, Paris wants even tougher “level playing field” conditions than those contained in the miserable “backstop”.

Both Brexiters appealed to EU law in recent legal battles. This undermines their arguments for leaving.

PM’s plan needs regulatory level playing field to stop unfair competition. Brexiters will ask what’s the point if we keep EU rules. Indeed.

Brexit secretary wants clarity on future relationship with EU before we quit. If more detail emerges people will wonder: “What’s the point?”

PM’s eaten her words big time. More is to come because her speech won’t wash with MPs or EU - and doesn’t offer solution to Irish border.

There’s logic behind EU’s insistence on a single set of rules for all. It’s a coherent tapestry of economic and social regulation.

Aviation is particularly exposed to Brexit. Blurring red lines to stay in EU air safety agency is a start, but it won’t avoid crash landing.

Brexit ayatollah is trying to calm Tory nerves over May’s capitulation by saying we can diverge from any EU rules we don’t like. Nonsense.

PM is promising “alignment” between UK and EU rules to solve Irish problem. Take back control is a bad joke. Best to stop Brexit.

The PM’s delicate house of cards has been blasted by DUP. Time to face facts: a workable deal cannot be negotiated as Irish tensions boil.

Insistence on UK staying close to EU rules post-Brexit won’t please Brextremists. But if we don’t agree, our economy will be badly hurt.