France’s Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin today said UK is trying “to secure a managed no deal” asking France for “mini-deals” on citizens, security, defence, fishing. The answer is “non” France will not do side-deals with UK to help mitigate impact of a no deal Brexit. /1 Amelie de Montchalin, France’s Europe Minister: “we can see during bilateral meetings that the British... try to secure a ‘managed no deal’… the probability of a no deal is quite high… the British are conscious of this and so they are trying to secure things" but .. /2

Boris Johnson says an election would decide if he or Jeremy Corbyn go to “those negotiations in Brussels on Oct 17th”. Wrong. There is NO NEGOTIATION at any EU summit. A UK leader doesn't negotiate directly with EU leaders. Negotiation has to be with the EU Commission/M Barnier An EU source, asked if UK PM is correct, tells BBC that EU “leaders have never negotiated directly with the UK PM on Brexit… UK is not even present when the EU27 leaders discuss Brexit.”