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The plan has brought some Tory unity, but Brussels believes it is unworkable.
The EU's Brexit negotiator has told a seminar in Dublin that there will be no renegotiation of the Northern Ireland Protocol and that the EU will not accept any solution that will cut the region off from the benefits of the single market.
'Stop Brexit': Boris Johnson barracked by protesters as EU says he has done nothing to achieve a new deal
16/09/2019
'It is the UK's responsibility to come forward with legally operational solutions' but 'such proposals have not yet been made' Brussels warns.
'We are not close to a deal': Ireland's deputy prime minister rubbishes Johnson 'spin' Brexit progress being made
20/09/2019
There is a 'wide gap' between solutions UK government is proposing and what the EU will be able to support, says Coveney.
A Leaked Tory Memo Ordered MPs To Call The EU "Crazy" If It Rejects Boris Johnson's Brexit Proposals
02/10/2019
Boris Johnson's senior aides have ordered Conservative MPs to call the European Union "crazy" if it rejects the Brexit proposals tabled by the UK on Wednesday, an internal memo leaked to BuzzFeed News reveals.
Boris Johnson and his team have only 3 months before Brexit, "very little time" to make significant preparations for a no-deal scenario says Sumona Guha, Albright Stonebridge Group Vice President.
The world’s fourth-biggest carmaker by sales has warned of a potential existential threat to large parts of the British car industry unless the government moves to alter the terms of its Brexit trade deal with the European Union.
Maroš Šefčovič says he does not want to put existing deal ‘in the shredder’. / The EU’s Brexit chief has ruled out renegotiating Britain’s trade deal until 2026, dashing hopes it could be improved and prevent businesses fleeing the UK.
Boris Johnson accused of having 'no negotiating strategy' after reiterating Brexit demand to scrap backstop
20/08/2019
Just hours before letter to Donald Tusk, one EU leader insisted withdrawal agreement ‘cannot be reopened’.
Boris Johnson admits no-deal Brexit will hurt UK while dodging journalists' questions during rambling campaign launch
12/06/2019
Boris Johnson has renewed his vow to take Britain out of the EU with or without a deal on 31 October, but admitted that withdrawal without an agreement will hurt the UK in the short term.
Boris Johnson is demanding complete secrecy from the European Union as the Government dispatches its “take it or leave” Brexit blueprint to Brussels.
Boris Johnson has no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement and a no-deal Brexit is his “central scenario”, European diplomats have been told, amid hardening evidence in Westminster that the government is expecting to crash out of the EU.
Move sparks fears PM will use European security as Brexit bargaining chip
Boris Johnson suggests his new Brexit proposals will be kept secret until UK and EU have ‘done the deal’
17/09/2019
Prime minister also refuses, seven times, to say how he will defy the law to avoid a Halloween crash-out – declining to rule out taking parliament to court.
Boris Johnson to meet Juncker face to face as Varadkar says Brexit offering 'falls well short' of what is needed
13/09/2019
Luxembourg talks are not expected to deliver a breakthrough as the clock ticks down to 31 October.
Boris Johnson under fire over unworkable Brexit plan and for being ‘hostage to Nigel Farage’
14/06/2019
Would-be prime minister criticised for claiming ‘fear of Farage’ will force Brussels into climbdown – and for backing Irish border technology that does not exist.
Boris Johnson’s claims about the prospects of rewriting the Brexit deal have been compared by the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator to the “false promises, pseudo-patriotism and foreigner-bashing” he is said to have used to win the EU referendum.
Dominic Cummings described talks as a 'sham' leak claims.
EU Commissioner slams ‘cheap promises, simplified visions, blatantly incorrect statements’.
British proposal to involve Stormont assembly in backstop alternative knocked back by EU.
Boris Johnson’s ‘implementation period’ and five other Tory leadership Brexit plans already rejected or doomed to fail
25/06/2019
What are the Brexit proposals put forward - and why will they probably be rejected?
Brexit backstop has not been rewritten or 'undermined' by new agreement, says Ireland PM Varadkar
12/03/2019
'It does not reopen the withdrawal agreement or undermine the backstop or its application' says Leo Varadkar
Brexit Britain set for '50 years' of non-stop negotiations with EU to improve current deal
27/01/2021
BRITAIN will face at least half a century negotiations with the European Union to try and iron out issues with the Brexit deal, a political expert warned.
British car factories could be forced to close if the UK does not renegotiate the current Brexit deal, according to one of the largest automakers in the country.