Possible Brexit Deal by end of month

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar said they saw a pathway to a possible Brexit deal after a last-ditch meeting aimed at paving a way for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in an orderly way.

With just three weeks to go before the United Kingdom is due to leave the world’s biggest trading bloc, it is still unclear on what terms it will leave or indeed whether it will at all.

Ireland holds the key to any deal. It will have to consent to any solution to the hardest Brexit riddle of all: how to prevent the British province of Northern Ireland becoming a backdoor into the EU’s markets without having border controls.

“They agreed that they could see a pathway to a possible deal,” Johnson and Varadkar said in a joint statement. “Both continue to believe that a deal is in everybody’s interest.

“They agreed to reflect further on their discussions and that officials would continue to engage intensively on them,” they said.

Via Reuters