Merkel's party chairman claims boris is disrupting brexit talks

He said: “Obviously we think in the UK that it’s time to get on with these negotiations, that it’s ready for the great ship to go down the slipway and into the open sea and for us to start

some serious conversations about the future and the new relationship, the deep and special partnership that we hope to construct that I think will work very much in the interests of both

sides.   “And people say to me 'we want to reassure the 3.2 million EU nationals in the UK and the one and a bit UK nationals in the EU' and so do we, and we’ve made a very good

offer, we’ve made a very fair and you know we think it’s a reasonable point of view that we’re outlining.  “Let’s give them that reassurance, let’s put a tiger in the tank, let’s get these

conversations going and stop letting the grass grow under our feet. We hope very much that our friends and partners will take that message and really begin some serious negotiations.” 

Theresa May and David Davis met with the President of the European Commission and Michel Barnier on Monday to try to kickstart Brexit talks which remain in “deadlock”.  After the dinner both

parties said the meeting had seen a “broad, constructive exchange” and agreed to accelerated the pace of negotiations.  A statement read: “As regards the Article 50 negotiations, both sides

agreed that these issues are being discussed in the framework agreed between the EU27 and the United Kingdom, as set out in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. “The Prime Minister

and the President of the European Commission reviewed the progress made in the Article 50 negotiations so far and agreed that these efforts should accelerate over the months to come. The

working dinner took place in a constructive and friendly atmosphere.”