Phase One saw May sign up in the end to everything the EU demanded at the very beginning of the negotiations. Now we find Davis and Hammond trying to persuade the Germans to back the continuation of free access of GB financial services to the single market, including passporting, even though it is our intention to leave it. No doubt they will learn the German view. The rules are simple. To get the benefits of the single market you have to be in it, all of it including free movement, ECJ and everything, or you are out of it. If you are out, whilst trading deals can be agreed, Canada is an example, theses cover goods not services. To allow the inclusion of the latter would compromise the future integrity of the EU, which at its heart is a political union to secure permanent peace and harmony in Europe after centuries of blood letting. Trade is the icing on the cake, but not the cake.
Nothing will be allowed to compromise or weaken that union. Not even, especially not even, Brexit.