It appears that no progress on Brexit is made after UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Cabinet meeting. May’s spokesman James Slack told reporters that there’s still a “significant amount of work” to do, “across government” on how the exit mechanism might work. The discussion inside the Cabinet was “constructive” and there was a shared view that the UK cannot remain in the “backstop indefinitely”.
Separately, EU chief Brexit negotiator talked to Belgian broadcaster RTBF. He said “For now, we are still negotiating and I am not, as I am speaking to you this morning, able to tell you that we are close to reaching an agreement, since there is still a real point of divergence on the way of guaranteeing peace in Ireland, that there are no borders in Ireland, while protecting the integrity of the single market.”
