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Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour delegation warned both Guy Verhofstadt and Michel Barnier that cross-party Brexit talks are non-existent with the Conservatives. Brussels has placed a lot of importance on such discussions to break the #Brexit deadlock.
Keir Starmer told Verhofstadt that they’d held one discussion in which Theresa May instantly shut down the idea of a customs union as part of the future relationship.
Meanwhile EU 27 ambassadors were told Stephen Barclay and Geoffrey Cox didn’t table any new text as part of an effort to win fresh legal assurances that the Irish backstop is temporary and not a trap
Feeling in Brussels is that May is still running down the clock in the hope MPs or EU will eventually buckle...
One amusing analogy from an EU diplomat: ‘It’s like a Netflix binge, we know what happens in the end but for now we’re still grinding through the middle episodes.’
One amusing analogy from an EU diplomat: ‘It’s like a Netflix binge, we know what happens in the end but for now we’re still grinding through the middle episodes.’
