MPs are on track to reject the prime minister’s deal just two days before the next meeting of heads of state and government in December. An EU official suggested there was no sign of any appetite for “any negotiation whatsoever” with the prime minister at the summit. “The union will decide at such a 27 meeting that the deal is closed and something about no-deal planning,” the official predicted. EU officials and diplomats are sceptical that tinkering in that document, which is not legally binding, will offer the prime minister any succour in the Commons. “What we have in the political declaration already allows for a spectrum of outcomes, such as Norway-plus a customs union.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2018 10:22 UTC