May’s Brexit solution: ‘Having your cake and eating it’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and European Council president Donald Tusk have ridiculed Britain’s latest Brexit stand-off solution, saying Theresa May’s plan to solve the issue is “having your cake and eating it” and “an illusion”.

Mr Varadkar and Mr Tusk lashed out at the British prime minister’s half-way house plan to end the Brexit customs union stalemate as the Taoiseach separately warned hard-line Brexiteers to “respect our vote” on the 20-year-old Good Friday Agreement.

In a bid to finally outline a coherent Brexit plan on Thursday, Ms May held a high-level Brexit cabinet committee meeting in Chequers to find a balance between a soft and hard departure from the EU.