A Member of the European Parliament responsible for coordinating talks on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union has derided London’s way of dealing with Brexit talks, saying the UK government would better forget about a Brexit deal if it wanted to dodge the question of Irish border.
Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian member of the European Parliament, told a meeting of MEPs in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday that the main stumbling block in talks on reaching a Brexit deal was how the EU and Britain wanted to resolve differences on the future situation of the Irish border.
Verhofstadt also said that British Prime Minister Theresa May was apparently using her own nation’s way of dealing with numbers when counting how much progress she had made in Brexit talks.
“We are now in a battle of the figures. Mrs May says 95% has been agreed, Michel Barnier (EU’s Brexit negotiator) says 90% has been agreed. I know Britain has always had…