Economics
Brexit Negotiators Turn Up Heat as U.K. Deadline Approaches
- U.K. ready and willing to leave single market without a deal
- French foreign affairs minister says no deal is looking likely
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The U.K. and European Union are locked in talks over a deal on their future relationship with each daring the other to blink just one day before Boris Johnson’s deadline for abandoning the negotiations expires.
Neither side believes the other has offered enough for talks to reach a conclusion, with the British government deriding the EU for its hard-line stance on fisheries and the EU calling for the U.K. to cede ground in other key areas such as business subsidies.