Brexit: Deal 'essentially impossible' after PM-Merkel call - No 10
Brexit: Deal ‘essentially impossible’ after PM-Merkel call – No 10
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Boris Johnson is poised to give up on Brexit deal talks with the EU after speaking to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, with a No 10 source briefing that an agreement looked “essentially impossible not just now but ever”, my colleague Rowena Mason reports.