Talks on the future trade deal start in April but don’t make much progress: the UK digs in with a proposal the EU has long rejected, and the EU refuses to engage. Discussions on the Irish border make little headway. The question of the Irish border has been postponed again with a carefully-worded compromise both sides can tolerate. Brexit backers cry foul—an independent trade policy was a key prize of leaving—but they know they don’t have the numbers to defeat May. The feeling in May’s office already is that she doesn’t have a mandate for an extreme Brexit.

Source: Mint March 29, 2018 14:37 UTC