The prime minister's official spokesman, asked about the trade talks on Monday, said: "The UK's primary objective in the negotiations is to ensure that we restore our economic and political independence on 1 January 2021." Mr Frost and his team will head to Brussels for the first round of negotiations on 2 March. One clash expected with the forthcoming publication of the EU's negotiation mandate is on fishing, with leading member states speaking regularly about wanting continued access to UK waters. In a speech in Greenwich, south-east London, earlier this month Mr Johnson announced that, once free of the EU's ... (full story)