Michel Barnier: no grounds for reopening Brexit talks

EU's top negotiator tells MEPs Britain has not offered credible proposals for Irish border

Michel Barnier has told MEPs there remain insufficient grounds for reopening formal negotiations over the Irish backstop, six months after Theresa May and the European commission closed them.

In a private briefing with the European parliament's leaders, the EU's chief negotiator said Boris Johnson's officials, led by his envoy, David Frost, were yet to offer any credible plan on which the two sides could build.