Britain's Brexit negotiators headed back to Brussels on Tuesday vowing to "get a deal over the line" as they seek EU support to break the stalemate in London before this month's divorce deadline. The sitdown comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Saturday that the European Union was ready to give further guarantees to help push a troubled divorce deal through the British parliament. With just 24 days to go until Britain is set to leave the EU, UK attorney general Geoffrey Cox and Brexit minister Stephen Barclay will meet Barnier for talks due to start at 17:00 (16:00 GMT). Cox will likely "reverse his previous legal advice that the UK could be trapped 'indefinitely' in the backstop," Rahman predicted. In 2017, Britain invoked Article 50 of EU law, triggering a two-year countdown to Brexit that ends at 23:00 (23:00 GMT) on March 29.

Source: News 24 March 06, 2019 04:41 UTC