The Brexit revelations: May’s no-deal, a Canada plan and mating porcupines – The Times

Michel Barnier, EU chief negotiator, bypassed by European Commission, who were privately helpful to UK. Breakthroughs secured in secret meetings on hotel roofs between Oliver Robbins and Martin Selmayr, EU official dubbed Monster of Brussels Three senior figures in government legal service gave Theresa May different advice to attorney-general Geoffrey Cox, whose ruling sunk her deal, saying UK had strong case to escape from Northern Ireland backstop For 48 hours in mid-March 2019, May seriously considered no-deal Brexit and David Cameron was prepared to make an intervention Tories and Labour agreed draft deal in spring 2019 after secret talks involving Mating Porcupines WhatsApp group but neither side thought they could sell it to MPs May initially backed and

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The Brexit revelations: May's no-deal, a Canada plan and mating porcupines - The Times