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		</div><p>A growing row over Theresa May&#8217;s apparent threat to pull security co-operation unless Brussels agrees a trade deal is a &#8220;misunderstanding&#8221;, a British cabinet minister has insisted.</p>
<p>In her letter to European Council president Donald Tusk triggering Article 50, the Prime Minister warned that failure to reach a comprehensive settlement would lead to a weakening of co-operation in the fight against crime and terrorism. Critics accused May of trying to make a trade-off between security and commerce.</p>
<p>British Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said the two issues had been mentioned side by side because they were &#8220;all bound up in our membership of the European Union&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a threat, I think that&#8217;s the misunderstanding,&#8221; he told BBC Two&#8217;s Newsnight. &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely not a threat.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a &#8220;historic moment from which there can be no turning back&#8221;, Mrs May set the country on the path to life outside the European Union when she triggered Article 50 on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The British Prime Minister immediately ran into resistance from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Parliament over her goal of conducting negotiations on Britain&#8217;s trade relations with Europe at the same time as talks on arrangements for Brexit.</p>
<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said: &#8220;It is our clear desire and intention that we should continue to play a role as one of the indispensable guarantors of peace and stability in our continent.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to continue to work with our counterparts on defence co-operation, intelligence sharing, counter-terrorism, foreign policy co-ordination &#8211; and much else besides &#8211; on an intergovernmental level.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the same time, the PM is right to spell out her vision of a Britain outside the single market &#8211; and outside the EU legal order &#8211; but able none the less to continue the trading relationship that is so important for businesses and consumers both sides of the Channel.&#8221;</p>
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