Chequers plan

The Chequers plan, officially known as The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (Cm 9593), was a UK Governmentwhite paper concerning Brexit, published on 12July 2018 by the prime minister, Theresa May. The paper was based on a three-page cabinet agreement from 6July 2018 and laid out the type of future relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU) that the UK sought to achieve in the Brexit negotiations. At the time it was anticipated that the United Kingdom would leave the European Union on 29 March 2019.

In July 2018, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Secretary), Dominic Raab, described it as a "detailed proposal for a principled, pragmatic and ambitious future partnership between the UK and the EU". He also stated that "the white paper proposes a free trade area for goods to maintain frictionless trade, supported by a common rulebook and a new facilitated customs arrangement, but only for the rules that are necessary to provide frictionless trade at the border."

The white paper was finalised at a meeting of the UK Cabinet held at Chequers on 6July 2018. Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign SecretaryBoris Johnson resigned in opposition to the plan. The plan was rejected by the EU in September 2018.