An eleventh-hour meeting this evening between Ursula von der Leyen and Boris Johnson could decide the fate of the relationship between the EU and the UK for decades to come. Hopes of striking a trade deal hang in the balance and may rest on a make-or-break dinner meeting between the European Commission president and British prime minister in Brussels tonight. Hopes of a Brexit breakthrough have been boosted as the UK agreed to drop controversial clauses in planned laws that would have breached the Northern Ireland protocols in the Withdrawal Agreement. However, there is also concern that the two sides may still be too far apart on key issues such as the so-called ‘level playing field’ fair competition provisions being demanded by Brussels.
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