UK’s chief Brexit negotiator urges Boris Johnson not to quit summit as no-deal looms

Lord David Frost tells PM that last-minute agreements on fishing rights and security are possible

Lord David Frost at the European Commission in Brussels
Lord David Frost at the European Commission in Brussels 
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Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator has urged Boris Johnson not to walk out of EU trade talks if the two sides fail to meet the prime minister’s self-imposed deadline of agreeing a deal by the end of today.

According to The Times, a source close to the talks says that “Frost advised Mr Johnson that a deal with the EU was not impossible, although time was tight to agree 500 pages of legal text this month”.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.