The EU accuses Britain of playing a 'stupid blame game' over Brexit after a Downing Street source said a deal was essentially impossible because German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made unacceptable demands
An array of remarks by unidentified British sources laid bare just how far apart the two sides are after three years of tortuous haggling over the first departure of a sovereign state from the EU.
According to a Downing Street source, Merkel said that for a deal, Northern Ireland would have to stay in the EU’s customs union and full alignment with the EU forever - demands Johnson could never accept or push through parliament. “If the EU doesn’t do a deal shortly, then we leave without a deal,” the source said. “We are leaving the European Union.”The opposition Labour Party said Johnson was trying to apportion blame ahead of a no-deal Brexit.
He has said he would abide by the law but Britain would leave the EU by the end of the month, without explaining that contradiction. He has also repeatedly demanded an election but parliament has refused to grant one.
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