Johnson said he believed the chances of a deal were ‘improving’ after meetings with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.
The Prime Minister, who is holding talks with European Council president Donald Tusk in Biarritz, previously said the odds of a no-deal Brexit were ‘a million to one’.
Mr Johnson said he believed the chances of a deal were ‘improving’ following a round of diplomacy which has also seen meetings with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’sMr Tusk said that if he does not accept the arrangement already agreed by the EU, the PM will be remembered as ‘Mr No Deal’ He received the backing of US president Donald Trump
In a series of broadcast interviews the PM confirmed that he would withhold the bulk of the £39 billion Brexit divorce bill in the event of no-deal. If there was a no-deal Brexit, he said he would ‘guarantee’ that people would still be able to get medicine and ‘I think it’s highly unlikely that there will be food shortages of any kind’.High on the agenda at the summit will be the climate emergency, the US-China trade war, Brexit and the Amazon wildfires Mr Johnson went for a swim in the Atlantic before his meetings at the G7 and told ITV: ‘I swam round that rock this morning. From here you cannot tell there is a gigantic hole in that rock.
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