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The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator today accused Britain of “nostalgia” for membership of the bloc’s single market, suggesting it regretted its decision to leave the EU.

David Davis, Britain’s Brexit Secretary, immediately bit back during a joint press conference for the end of the third round of EU-UK negotiations in Brussels.

“I wouldn’t confuse a belief in the free market for nostalgia,” he told Michel Barnier as the two men stood at the podium in the headquarters of the European Commission.

Mr Barnier had said: “When I read some of the papers that David has sent me… I see a sort of nostalgia in the form of specific requests that would amount to enjoying the benefits of the single market without being part of it.