LIVE: Michael Gove says there will be no Brexit trade deal 'as things stand'

Michael Gove is updating the Commons on Brexit talks, telling MPs "as things stand [a deal] will not now happen".

The Cabinet Office minister says the UK is "absolutely committed to securing a Canada-style FTA, but there does need to be a fundamental change in approach from the EU" to do it.

The target date was last Thursday, he adds, and both sides had agreed to work "intensively".

"But I have to report to the House this intensification was not forthcoming," he adds. "The EU was only willing to conduct negotiations on fewer than half the days available... Moreover the EU refused to discuss legal texts on any area," he says. It is surprising to the UK that "we have reached this point in negotiations without any common legal texts of any kind".

The European Council summit saw the original mandate be reaffirmed, and the removal of the suggestion of "intensification" of talks.

They also declared "all - all - future moves in this negotiation had to be made by the UK," Mr Gove says.

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