Britains Prime Minister has tried to inject new energy into the brexit talks with a distinctly warmer tone in a key speech in italy. Theresa may says she wants the uk to be the eus strongest friend and partner, and has called for a two year transition deal after britain officially leaves the eu. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this report from florence. Waiting, waiting and waiting. Its months since the Prime Minister gave anything away on brexit. And if youre in a hurry to disentangle completely, you might just have to wait some more. She came to florence to confirm that for as long as two years after were technically out, not that much might change. A period of implementation would be in our mutual interest and that is why im proposing that there should be such a period after the uk leaves the eu. Clearly people, businesses and Public Services should only have to plan for one set of changes in the relationship between the uk and the eu. So during the implementation period,
British workers. The important priority is to ensure that we have a tariff free trade access to the european market. Half of all our trade is with europe. I would also say that we need to look very carefully at the terms of any trade relationship. American football stars kneel during their national anthem, protesting against racism in the us. Donald trump says theyre unpatriotic. Lets continue our coverage of the german election. The polls have been close for a couple of hours now. We have exit polls that well not a confirmation of the result have a track record of being very accurate. This is where were standing at the moment. Angela merkels cdu party, along with its sister party, the csu in bavaria, is projected to take 33 of the vote. The social democrats, the other giant of german party politics, a disaster is showing of 20 . Its leader, martin schulz, the former leader of the european parliament, says he will continue. He wants involvement in reimagining what his party offers vote
Would also say that we need to look very carefully at the terms of any trade relationship. American football stars kneel during their national anthem, protesting against racism in the us. Donald trump says theyre unpatriotic. The germans are digesting an election result which will reverberate for years to come. Angela merkel has led the Christian Democratic Party to be the biggest in this election, but that and it is a big but, this has been a disastrous night for the chancellor. The cdu and csu have lost ground since the last election. Lets bring the latest projections we have, the latest exit polls, which show you the cdu and csu projected to get 33 , below where they were polling recent days, and also well below the over 41 they got in the last election. The second part of this story is the social democrat party. Its worst ever showing in the general election, projected at 21 , and this is yet another european ce ntre left and this is yet another European Centre left party experienc