LONDON — Bellicose threats to walk away from the bargaining table. Defiant assertions of British sovereignty and promises not to become a “client state” of Europe. Ominous talk of a hard border rising again across Ireland. On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to break off the talks if there was no deal in place by Oct. 15, two and a months before the official deadline of Dec. 31. And his government prepared legislation that could undermine parts of the political agreement, relating to Northern Ireland, that it struck last October to withdraw from the bloc after 47 years.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2020 17:15 UTC