The Brexit talks between the UK and the EU are making very little progress. Number 10 say that there is the ‘potential for some meetings next week’. But, as I say in The Sun this morning, there is little optimism about what will come from them.
There is doubt as to whether the process will even make it into the tunnel, the EU’s term for intensive serious negotiations. One Number 10 source tells me, ‘Not going to get into the tunnel without more compromise but we’re getting to the limit of what we can do.’
There are two essential problems. The first is that Theresa May gave away so much with the original backstop. The Irish and the EU, understandably, object to the UK giving up on commitments it made in both the Join Report of December 2017 and the Withdrawal Agreement.
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