Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has refused to close the door on the possibility of the trade talks with the European Union continuing past the Sunday deadline.
The Cabinet minister said “never say never” and highlighted that negotiations with Brussels have a tendency to “drag and drift”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to have a telephone call with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at 11am after negotiations re-started in the Belgian capital at 8am UK time.
The two leaders had agreed during a dinner meeting last week that Sunday marked the deadline for a “firm decision” to be “taken about the future of the talks”, opening up the possibility that the negotiations could be collapsed without an agreement.
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