Rumours swirled that a cabinet minister was about to walk out. Meanwhile, in Dublin, David Lidington, the cool-headed cabinet office minister, was having a good meeting with the Irish Brexit minister, Simon Coveney. The bellicose language, and entrenched position on the Irish border problem, appeared to some to be making a no-deal scenario more likely. “If you are a Brexiter, you say ‘We will then do a long-term trade deal’. “The problem with a Canada-style free trade agreement is it doesn’t solve the Irish border,” said one cabinet minister.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2018 17:30 UTC