Britain lurched closer to a no-deal Brexit yesterday after Boris Johnson failed to break the deadlock in crunch talks with EU boss Ursula von der Leyen.
The PM video-called the EU Commission President in the hope the meeting would unblock stalled negotiations. But afterwards a No10 spokesman said: “Significant gaps remained. “They instructed their chief negotiators to work intensively to try to bridge those gaps.” With 11 days to go before the next EU summit and the deadline for a deal to be signed, chaos looms when the transition period ends on December 31.
No agreement would see tariffs slapped on £300billion worth of goods overnight, and queues 7,000 lorries long at Channel ports.
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