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Eleventh Hour: EU, Britain Agree to Extend Brexit Talks Till 31st December Published December 13th, 2020 - 11:46 GMT In this file photo taken on October 02, 2019 Britain s Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers his keynote speech to delegates on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the Manchester Central convention complex, in Manchester, north-west England. Ben STANSALL / AFP Highlights He had suggested that today was a hard deadline for both sides to make agreement or stop them. Brexit talks will go to the 11th hour after Boris Johnson stepped back from the brink of a No Deal departure today. The Prime Minister announced that deadlocked free trade talks would continue, after holding talks with European Commission president Ursula Von de Leyen this morning. ....
The Government has revealed its No Deal contingency plans, including more than 3,000 lorries a week to bring in essential drugs and 1,100 extra customs and immigration officers. Preparations for Britain crashing out without a free trade agreement have so far seen Royal Navy vessels deployed to threats of illegal fishing in UK waters, Number 10 confirmed last night. Now officials have announced a raft of other moves, including the recruitment of extra border staff to help ensure the country can keep moving once the transitional arrangement with Brussels ends. The extra employees will be supported by seven inland inspection sites, a round-the-clock Border Operations Centre, support phone lines and a hauliers app. ....
Boris Johnson says the UK will go the extra mile in EU Brexit talks as he steps back from the brink of No Deal but warns they could still fail because the two sides are still very far apart on some key things - as supermarkets prepare for panic-buying PM held talks with European Commission president Ursula Von de Leyen this morning by telephone He had suggested that today was a hard deadline for both sides to make agreement or stop them But in a joint statement this morning they said: It is responsible at this point to go the extra mile ....
comments Chancellor Angela Merkel is being blamed for the European Union s hard line during Brexit deal negotiations One source said that she was determined to make Britain crawl across broken glass rather than compromise Johnson s Whitehall intervention is aimed at protecting vital supplies of food and medicines after January 1 Will head super-committee to run alongside existing No Deal preparation group chaired by Michael Gove Boris Johnson has seized personal control of Britain s No Deal preparations as the deadline for historic talks with the EU expires today. The move comes as Government sources put the chances of negotiations failing as high as 80 per cent, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel being blamed for the European Union s hard line. ....