UK To Continue Brexit Talks In 'Good Faith' With EU Despite Salzburg Rebuff - Raab

The United Kingdom will continue negotiating with the European Union in "good faith," on its departure, following the EU informal summit in Salzburg where several EU leaders said they were opposed to UK Brexit proposals, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 24th September, 2018) The United Kingdom will continue negotiating with the European Union in "good faith," on its departure, following the EU informal summit in Salzburg where several EU leaders said they were opposed to UK Brexit proposals, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Monday.

"Away from the political melodrama we keep on negotiating in good faith, we try and get the best deal we can, but we're ready for all eventualities," Raab told talkRADIO broadcaster.

Raab added that the opposition Labour Party's plan to vote to retain an option of a second Brexit referendum was "undemocratic."

"It's the last thing we should be doing right now with our EU partners, because it encourages them to offer us a lousy deal which will make no-deal more likely.

I'm sure that's not what the Labour [members of parliament] MPs or the Labour activists want, but that's the direct consequence of what they're flirting with," Raab said.

Raab added he had spoken with Prime Minister Theresa May after her statement at Salzburg summit and stressed that he supported May fully in her defense of the so-called Chequers plan, rejected by the European Union.

According to the Chequers plan, adopted by the UK cabinet in July, London and Brussels could create a free trade area for goods and maintain a "common rulebook" for all goods. The European Union, however, rejected the proposal as undermining the single market.