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Unfreezing talks, but kicking the can down the road

Prime Minister Theresa May’s much-hyped Florence speech has probably inched the UK closer to having made “sufficient progress” on the withdrawal phase of the negotiations. However, there are still some key sticking points, and the big picture is that the speech did little more than kick the can down the road.

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