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Brexit Secretary General Dominic Raab is to declare that Britain's "willingness to compromise" to leave the EU is "not without limits" in an important speech delivered today. .
Mr. Raab's tough message, to be delivered in a speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, comes after Jeremy Corbyn warned that a Brexit without a transaction would be a "national disaster."
In an offer to the Prime Minister, the Labor leader said that his party would support it if it concluded an agreement including a customs union, the preservation of labor regulations and the environment and the absence of difficult border in Ireland.
But Mr Raab will use his speech to exclude any agreement that "locks" Britain into the European Union by joining a customs union or the European Economic Area.
It will reject the European Commission's proposal to find a "security" solution to the Irish border issue in which Northern Ireland remains an integral part of the EU customs zone.
Theresa May hinted on Sunday that she was ready to consider further concessions on her Checkers plan for future relations with Europe, announcing to the BBC that she wanted to "sit down" with the EU and discuss his concerns.
After the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said frankly at the Salzburg summit this month that the auditors "would not work", Ms May said that Brussels had to explain its objections in detail and propose counter-measures. proposals.
She told the show Andrew Marr: "My mood is to listen to what the EU has to say about its concerns and to sit down and discuss them with them."
Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, said that May should stick to the Checkers plan, asking her to channel "Nelson, Churchill and the heroes of the Falklands War".
He told the Sun: "Gibraltar has always been there for the British people.
"Now, Britain is here for us, ensuring that the good things we have received from the EU are not lost."
Mr Raab should use his speech at the conference to emphasize that the UK is limited in its willingness to take into account the EU's concerns.
He will say: "Our willingness to compromise is not without limits.
"We leave the European Union, in fact and not just by name, if we can not get an agreement that achieves that goal … if we try to lock ourselves in the back door of the European Union of Customs and the EEA … or if the only EU offer threatens the integrity of our union, then we will no longer have any other choice than to leave without agreement. "
Recalling her support for May's Checkers plan, Raab said, "My approach to Brexit is pragmatic and non-dogmatic, and our proposals would lead to a historic agreement providing a road map out of the EU and a final agreement. which will be good for the whole country.
"An agreement that follows the referendum because it is our democratic duty.
"An agreement that manages the risks of Brexit because it is our responsibility.
"An agreement that seizes the opportunities of Brexit, because we are at our best when we are optimistic about the future.
"And an agreement that protects our precious Union, because we are the Conservative and Unionist Party."
