Varadkar: EU could pull plug on Brexit talks

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that the EU could pull the plug on the Brexit withdrawal talks in June unless Britain can put forward a coherent plan for the border within the next 10 weeks.

Mr Varadkar said: “I think we need to seriously ask whether a withdrawal agreement is possible at all” after EU officials outright rejected Britain’s current plans as “fantasy island unicorn” politics.

In a clear escalation of tensions, Britain’s existing plans on how its promises to allow a soft Irish border while also treating the North the same as the rest of the UK were yesterday dismissed as unworkable by the EU.