Boris Johnson was booed after emerging from a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Follow live updates from the prime minister's trip here:
Luxembourg's PM warns Johnson the 'clock is ticking'Live reporting by Aubrey Allegretti, Greg Heffer and Alan McGuinness, political reportersBoris Johnson has been"empty chaired" at a news conference by the prime minister of Luxembourg, who told him not to"hold the future hostage for party political gain".What happens when you go speed dating with Liberal Democrats?
The prime minister adds that he doesn't want people to think it is"necessarily in the bag", adding that"there'll be hard work to be done."Labour MP Hilary Benn, who was behind the backbench bid to force Boris Johnson to avoid no-deal, has written to him. He says there has been a"lot of work" on new proposals over the last six weeks, but now that work has to"really accelerate".
A spokesperson says: “The prime minister and President Juncker had a constructive meeting this lunchtime..."The PM reconfirmed his commitment to the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and his determination to reach a deal with the backstop removed, that UK parliamentarians could support. "The aim of the meeting was to take stock of the ongoing technical talks between the EU and the UK and to discuss the next steps.
Our Brussels correspondent Adam Parsons says Juncker and Johnson were"greeted with a cacophony of noise" by around 70 protesters, most of them British people who live in Luxembourg.There are sounds of booing and"stop Brexit", as the two politicians leave the restaurant.The government has spent more than a quarter of a million pounds on Facebook adverts preparing the public for Brexit, despite continued uncertainty over whether the UK will depart the EU at the end of October.
"Until that happened, not only would he argue but I would often like to put the point that Boris Johnson is a one nation Conservative on all the main social issues - on climate change, gay marriage, even immigration."What happened as the result of an expulsion of these 21 is of course they all came from the one nation side of the Conservative parliamentary party...
He attacks US President Donald Trump, telling Lib Dem members that"far-right politics has entered the White House".He also attacks"thinly-veiled homophobia" and comments about migrants by Vladimir Putin, the"violent and oppressive scenes" in Hong Kong, and expresses concern about the current situation in Kashmir.
He then turns his attack on his old party, saying the Labour Party"likes to think of itself as a champion of liberal values both at home and abroad".
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