[Nicky91]

The Prime Minister spoke to the 27 EU leaders at a meeting in Salzburg last night
She only got 10 minutes to speak and did not discuss Brexit with counterparts
EU council president Donald Tusk said Mrs May must 'rework' Chequers plan
Chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said he will 'improve' EU's border proposal
But Brussels is still demanding checks between Northern Ireland and rest of UK

EU leaders today said they are still 'far away' from a Brexit deal despite Theresa May's plea to agree Britain's divorce within eight weeks.

The Prime Minister had a ten minute pitch at the end of a summit dinner in Salzburg last night to get their backing for her Chequers blueprint - but there was no breakthrough.

In a blunt ultimatum, Mrs May ruled out any delay to Britain's departure from the EU in March – and said there were no circumstances in which she would consider a second referendum.

She also rejected the EU's latest proposals for resolving the Northern Ireland border issue, warning leaders that they would break up the UK.

But leaders appear unimpressed and said talks are now going nowhere with six months until the UK leaves the EU - and at home Tory plotters are already calling for her removal by next April with one ally calling Chequers 'as dead as a dodo'.

After the meal of Wiener schnitzel and Sachertorte at Felsenreitschule, the theatre where The Sound of Music was filmed, EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the two sides remained 'far away' from a deal.

Slovak PM Peter Pellegrini said: 'There has been no progress' and Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite said simply: 'It's a standstill'.
The leaders of Czech Republic and Malta have today said that Britain's voters must have another chance to vote again on whether to leave the EU.

As the pressure on Mrs May increases, Nicola Sturgeon has called for all British political parties to back an extension to the Article 50 process.

'Taking the UK off the Brexit cliff edge without knowing where it lands would be the most irresponsible thing any prime minister has done in a very, very long time,' she told the BBC.

'That's why I think if that's the situation we end up in (then) extending Article 50 is a far better way of proceeding.'

Tory conspirators believe the Prime Minister could be forced to stand down after Brexit according to a memo circulating among MPs last night.
The document also assesses who Theresa May's likely successor will be and rates their chances.

The document is based on the assumption that the 1922 Committee of senior backbench Tories will 'invite the PM to stand-down soon(ish) after March 2019'.
It advises MPs to 'manoeuvre immediately' and sets out details of 27 potential candidates, according to the Daily Telegraph.

It describes Environment Secretary Michael Gove as being 'on manoeuvres', says Chancellor Philip Hammond is 'thinking he has a chance' but has 'not a hope', while Trade Secretary Liam Fox's prospects are 'fading'.

Boris Johnson is described as 'the front runner' but is considered an unlikely successor because 'the front runner never wins'. Jacob Rees-Mogg, chairman of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tories, was not on the leaked list.

There is a deep rift in the party over her Chequers deal - with Brexiteers and Remainers both unhappy with it.

An ally of Theresa May says her Chequers plan is as 'dead as a dodo' and claims the Prime Minister tried to 'blackmail' her MPs to support it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ght-weeks.html

[arista]

This should be on the mega EU thread
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...1#post10230871

She got 10mins to talk

this visit gets No results

[Nicky91]

sure arista