EU ‘not making a new Brexit offer’

Any hope of a last-ditch deal to prevent a crash-out Brexit is vanishing after EU leaders warned British prime minister Theresa May they will offer her nothing in make-or-break talks today and tomorrow — telling Brexiteers they have “a special place in hell”.

European Council president Donald Tusk and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker maintained the hardline stance as they said that the backstop and Ireland will not be “abandoned”.