He said the alliance members had agreed to reach spending two per cent of GDP on defence faster than previously planned and claimed financial commitments would increase beyond that in future. But other delegations and NATO officials contradicted Trump, saying he had secured no significant concessions and their defence spending plans remained basically the same as they had been before.

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The UK government's new blueprint for Brexit yesterday drew a firm thumbs-down from the City, which warned it would damage both the all-important finance sector and the wider economy, but industry appeared happier. The government has been at pains to map out a future customs plan to govern post-Brexit trade with the EU. But its new "white paper" gave little detail about the future of services, which account for 80 per cent of the economy.

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