Britain's Brexit minister Stephen Barclay urged the European Union to show ...
MADRID - Britain’s Brexit minister Stephen Barclay urged the European Union to show flexibility and creativity over Brexit on Thursday, saying the Irish backstop arrangement “has to go” and that Britain was prepared to leave without a deal if needed.
Barclay was speaking in Madrid just six weeks before the date on which Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to take Britain out of the European Union by Oct. 31 “do or die”.“The prize of a deal should focus the minds of both sides on this need for creativity and flexibility,” he said. He listed issues with the Irish arrangement which made it impossible to accept, including the difficulty of guaranteeing it would be temporary.
A deal to leave the EU would help manage issues including the treatment of international business groups like British Airways and Iberia airlines operator IAG and logistics around the British territory of Gibraltar, Barclay said.
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