Media captionThe single market “is not something that"s on sale”: Jonathan Faull Britain will not be able to buy access to the European single market after it leaves the EU, according to one of the most senior UK officials to have worked in Brussels.
Jonathan Faull, who retired last week, said that access to the single market “is not something that"s on sale”.
He also warned the UK should not assume it will be able to broker a deal with Angela Merkel if she wins re-election.
Theresa May plans to trigger the Brexit negotiations by the end of March.
But Mr Faull said that Britain has one important card to play in the EU negotiations – cooperation on European defence.
The warnings by Mr Faull, who served in the European Commission for 38 years, come as the government scrambles to assemble its Brexit negotiating team in the wake of the resignation of the UK"s EU ambassador, Sir Ivan Rogers.
He is to be replaced by Sir Tim Barrow, a former UK ambassador to Moscow.
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