"Brexit Secretary David Davis says the UK wants to secure a free-trade deal with no tariffs when it leaves the EU."
Davis all over the place:
He said the odds of the UK exiting without a deal had "dropped dramatically" following Friday's joint EU-UK statement in Brussels.
But he stressed that the deal struck by Theresa May on Friday to move to the next phase of talks was a "statement of intent" and not "legally enforceable".
But the Irish government said that as far as it was concerned the agreement signed on Friday between the EU and the UK was binding.
"The European Union will be holding the United Kingdom to account," the Irish government's chief whip told RTE.
"My question to anybody within the British government would be, why would there be an agreement, a set of principled agreements, in order to get to phase two, if they weren't going to be held up? That just sounds bizarre to me," Joe McHugh told RTE Radio's This Week.