LIVE: Boris Johnson Holds Covid-19 Briefing on Regional Lockdowns in the U.K.
October 16, 2020
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1:13:55Now PlayingLIVE: Boris Johnson Holds Covid-19 Briefing on Regional Lockdowns in the U.K.
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as posted by the channel(Oct. 16) Watch live as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a coronavirus briefing on the regional lockdowns across the U.K. amid the Covid-19 pandemic on Friday, October 16, 2020.
Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a “fundamental” change of position from the bloc, as the two sides swapped blame for failing to strike a deal with just weeks until the end-of-year deadline.
Johnson accused the EU of refusing to give Britain a trade deal like the one it has with Canada, which the U.K. is seeking. His spokesman went further, saying that the talks are effectively finished.
“The trade talks are over,” spokesman James Slack said. “The EU have effectively ended them yesterday” by stating at a summit in Brussels that the U.K. would have to significantly change position or there would be no deal.
Downing St.’s hardline stance cast doubt on the EU’s intention to continue negotiations in London next week.
Reiterating a statement by Johnson earlier, he said that “only if the EU fundamentally changes its position will it be worth talking.”
EU leaders insisted they still want a deal —- though as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, “not at any price.”
Von der Leyen said EU negotiator Michel Barnier would head to London next week “to intensify these negotiations.” Britain appeared to rebuff that offer.
“There is only any point in Michel Barnier coming to London next week if he is prepared discuss all the issues on the basis of legal texts in an accelerated way without the U.K. being required to make all of the moves,” Slack said.
Britain toughened its stance and ramped up tension without quite making good on Johnson’s threat to walk away from negotiations if a deal was not struck by the EU summit that ends Friday.
As far as I can see they have abandoned the idea of a free trade deal. … Unless there is a fundamental change of approach we are going to go for the Australia solution,” Johnson said in London.
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