“We can’t be blackmailed into paying a price on the first part... We think we should begin discussions on the final settlement because that’s good for business, and it’s good for the prosperity both of the British people and of the rest of the people of the European Union"
Boris Johnson
Liam Fox
Michael Gove
David Davis
“It is the United Kingdom that has been coming forward with the ideas and with the clarity about the future”
Boris Johnson
Theresa May
David Davis
Liam Fox
"This week we’ve had long and detailed negotiations across multiple areas and I think it’s fair to say, we’ve made some concrete progress"
David Davis
Michel Barnier
Liam Fox
Theresa May
"This week provided useful clarifications... but we did not get any decisive progress on the central subjects."
David Davis
Michel Barnier
Boris Johnson
Daniel Hannan
"I believe we can look at an EU-Japan deal as the basis for a future trade deal between the United Kingdom and Japan."
Guy Verhofstadt
Shinzo Abe
Liam Fox
Theresa May
"Brexiteers promised a new dawn of improved trade deals across the world. But rather than jet-setting round the globe, Liam Fox might as well be left in a room with a photocopier."
Jeremy Corbyn
Nick Clegg
Vince Cable
Tony Blair
“Brexit is going to be a disaster for the UK economy. [Theresa May] needs to be over there negotiating or at least removing these roadblocks, not swanning around Japan drinking tea and sake.”
Richard Branson
Tim Martin
Michael O'Leary
Nicola Sturgeon
Some British proposals showed "a sort of nostalgia in the form of specific requests which would amount to continuing to enjoy the benefits of the single market and EU membership without actually being part of it”.
Chuka Umunna
Ken Clarke
Michel Barnier
Boris Johnson
“I hope one will be able to find a solution because we live in such an interdependent world and the European system – the European Union – has been so successful."
Emmanuel Macron
Hillary Clinton
Kofi Annan
Al Gore
“Honestly, from what we see of the UK’s positions today we will not be moving to the next phase in October. To be clear: the crisis in these talks is not behind us but ahead of us. I don’t know when it will come, or what its outcome will be.”
Angela Merkel
Jean-Claude Juncker
Herman Van Rompuy
Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, Germany’s ambassador to France
Solutions
1:B - Fox, in Japan with Theresa May, said on Sky news that he was concerned the Brexit talks were “stuck” on the initial issues., 2:B - Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier disagreed, telling reporters: 'We need to know their position and then I can be flexible.', 3:A, 4:B - Compare and contrast with the answer above., 5:D - May's comments came after Japan's PM, Shinzo Abe, had said businesses need “transparency and predictability” during the process of leaving the EU, 6:C - The Lib Dem leader called May's approach a "cut and paste Brexit", 7:C - O'Leary also warned that flights between Europe and the UK could be at risk, and that “panic and fudge” were the only things that would keep planes flying after 2019, 8:C - The EU's chief negotiator was frustrated by the lack of progress in talks on key issues such as the divorce bill and citizens' rights, 9:C - The former UN secretary general told the Guardian he believes free movement of people is an absolutely essential human right, 10:D - Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, Germany’s ambassador to France and previously chief European affairs adviser to the chancellor, Angela Merkel, made this prediction in front of an audience in Paris on Tuesday.
