May urges EU leaders to focus on getting a Brexit deal

Theresa May has urged EU leaders to focus their minds on getting a Brexit deal in the next two months, saying negotiations will not be extended.

At a dinner in Salzburg, she told her 27 counterparts her priorities are maintaining economic ties and ensuring promises to Northern Ireland are kept.

There are suggestions the UK will put forward new ideas for regulatory checks to address the current Irish deadlock.

It comes as the PM insisted the EU must also rethink its stance on the border.

In a speech over dinner expected to last about 10 minutes, Mrs May stressed her “serious” proposals for future co-operation between the UK and EU would ensure a “shared close relationship”.

In the meantime, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that there is a possibility of a proposal which will see those countries which won’t participate in the redistribution of migrants pay a financial contribution.

Conte was addressing the press after the evening dinner.