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Britain will gradually boost its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces during a visit to Poland. "Over the next six years, we'll invest an additional 75 billion pounds in our defence," Sunak says alongside Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief. SOUNDBITE
European leaders insist that Britain must implement the terms of its existing Brexit withdrawal treaty, European Council president Charles Michel says after the first stage of an EU summit. SOUNDBITE
Europe's chief negociator for Brexit Michel Barnier says that the EU is "ready to offer a highly ambitious trade deal", including "zero tariffs and zero quotas". SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is confident that his country's parliament would back a Brexit deal struck with the EU -- despite key allies coming out against it. SOUNDBITE
Britain's economy would suffer "very large costs" if it leaves the European Union next March with no divorce agreement in place, the International Monetary Fund's Christine Lagarde warned in a speech at the UK Treasury on Monday. SOUNDBITE
Britain's Brexit minister says Britain 'will be ready for the alternative' if negotiations with the European Union fail to end in a trade deal before the UK's departure from the bloc. SOUNDBITE
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