EU leaders have signalled a willingness to provide the UK with another Brexit extension to get a deal over the line as talks enter a critical phase. “It’s up to the Brits to decide if they will ask for an extension,” Mr Juncker told the Austrian newspaper the Kurier yesterday. But if Boris Johnson were to ask for extra time — which probably he won’t — I would consider it unhistoric to refuse such a request. Briefing his minsters, Mr Johnson said there is still a “significant amount of work” to do to get a Brexit deal. Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald spoke by phone with Mr Johnson yesterday afternoon and told him that there could be no unionist veto on protections for Ireland.

Source: Irish Examiner October 14, 2019 04:52 UTC