Theresa May was greeted in Brussels by Jean-Claude Juncker after some awkward moments at PMQs

Theresa May is resisting efforts to keep Britain in parts of the EU’s Galileo satellite programme in a late reversal of negotiating positions.

In one of the divorce’s most bitter wrangles, Brussels said that Britain should lose access to the €10 billion mission to develop a global positioning system. It insisted it would not be able to use its encrypted military grade signal, vital for applications such as missile guidance systems, after Brexit. British space companies also faced being blocked from contracts worth hundreds of millions. Because Britain would be a so-called third country after leaving it could not share in the development or use of secret technology under EU law, Brussels argued.

In August Mrs May announced that the government was spending almost