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BRITAIN should be given another year to find a solution to the Irish backstop as the EU has set the government a test it “cannot meet,” Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said yesterday.
The Tory government is running out of time to provide a legally operative text by September 30.
It comes after French President Emmanuel Macron and Finnish PM Antti Rinne gave an ultimatum on Wednesday, saying PM Boris Johnson had 12 days to suggest workable proposals to the backstop.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
We must remember Morocco’s land grab of the Sahrawi people’s territory continues with French and British support, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG, looking into the origins of the annexation
