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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Today is Friday, November the 23rd, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today we'll be looking at the draft Brexit Declaration agreed between Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker.

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The UK and the EU have agreed a draft political declaration on future relations that is

due to be approved at a summit on Sunday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May claimed a

declaration would lead to a brighter future, but MPs gave her a rough ride

yesterday afternoon giving a foretaste of the battle she faces in December when Parliament holds its meaningful vote on her Brexit deal.

I spoke to the F.T's Jim Brunston about the declaration and what it means as the Brexit talks reach crunch point.

Jim, this is described as a declaration that pledges an ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership.

But can you summarize what's actually in the declaration?

Yeah, well I think pledges is the key word, really.

What we have is we have a 26 page document.

It's not really written in legal language.

It reads actually quite a lot like a European Commission policy

paper that briefly sets out sector by sector, so energy, justice and home affairs, trading

goods and so on, what the EU and the UK are looking for in their long-term permanent future relationship once the UK is out.

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