With just months to go before the U.K. leaves the European Union, the two governments have agreed on a draft of what exactly that withdrawal will look like. The British prime minister’s office announced the tentative agreement Tuesday without offering details about the deal hashed out with EU negotiators in Brussels.
The specifics will likely surface only after members of the U.K. Cabinet are consulted. Any agreement requires the approval of Parliament as well as all 27 remaining EU member states.
“Cabinet will meet at 2 pm tomorrow [local time] to consider the draft agreement the negotiating teams have reached in Brussels, and to decide on next steps,” a spokesperson for No. 10 Downing Street told NPR on Tuesday. “Cabinet Ministers have been invited to read documentation ahead of that meeting.”
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