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Originally Posted by jfman

It's ignored because it's irrelevant to the EU stance that it wants it included in a trade deal. Everyone in a deal wants to tie in their strongest positions to those they are weakest on, to achieve a balance in the middle. That's negotiations day in day out between people, businesses and countries.

It's not the "big bad EU". It's capitalism 101.

... but the EU isn't on strong ground with their demands.
It is not possible that the UK Guvmin will yield sovereignty. The only strength the EU has to hold to us is in relation to financial passporting or equivalence.
But they demand we cede sovereignty as I've outlined earlier before they'll discuss that.