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Tue Mar 5, 2019, 07:42 PM Mar 2019

May's top lawyer struggles for Brexit deal in Brussels

Source: Reuters

Brexit
March 5, 2019 / 4:30 AM / Updated 5 minutes ago

Gabriela Baczynska

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks between British Prime Minister Theresa May’s top government lawyer and European Union negotiators to win concessions from the bloc on Brexit ended with no agreement in Brussels on Tuesday.

May has sent Attorney General Geoffrey Cox to seek changes to her deal in a last-ditch bid to get it through parliament and smooth Britain’s departure from the European Union.

The talks between Cox, Britain’s Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier ended with no agreement after more than three hours on Tuesday. Sources from both sides said negotiations among lower-ranking officials would continue on Wednesday.

An EU official said Tuesday’s talks did not go well.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/mays-top-lawyer-struggles-for-brexit-deal-in-brussels-idUSKCN1QM0Y8



You go to meeting and present a "clusterfuck" plan, knowing the EU will not accept the back stop................

Hey May have another vote, your austerity (BREXIT) measure will hurt Britain, and you know it, people are already buying stock in groceries like its going to be the end times, or the hunger games.....................or the survivalists guide to anarchy.....................
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