{"id":106740,"date":"2019-08-20T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/20\/brexit-no-10-tells-tusk-theres-no-prospect-of-deal-unless-withdrawal-agreement-reopened-live-news\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:45:27","slug":"brexit-no-10-tells-tusk-theres-no-prospect-of-deal-unless-withdrawal-agreement-reopened-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106740","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: No 10 tells Tusk there&#039;s &#039;no prospect of deal&#039; unless withdrawal agreement reopened \u2013 live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenDiane Abbott: free movement plan worse than WindrushAnalysis: what\u2019s in new bid to remove backstop? 2.41pm BST I\u2019m back, and No 10 has responded to Donald Tusk\u2019s statement rejecting Boris Johnson\u2019s proposal for the backstop. A Downing Street spokesman said:We are deeply invested in the peace, prosperity and security of Northern Ireland and always will be and we have been clear that we will never place infrastructure, checks, or controls at the border.But it is clear that unless the withdrawal agreement is reopened and the backstop abolished there is no prospect of a deal. It has already been rejected three times by MPs and is simply unviable as a solution, as the PM\u2019s letter makes clear. 2.07pm BST The latest from Boris Johnson, which does not exactly move things on:The referendum result must be respected. We will leave the EU on 31st October. #LeaveOct31 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2019\/aug\/20\/brexit-latest-news-boris-johnsons-backstop-offer-to-eu-dismissed-by-labour-as-fantasyland-wish-list-live-news\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit: No 10 tells Tusk there&#039;s &#039;no prospect of deal&#039; unless withdrawal agreement reopened \u2013 live news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenDiane Abbott: free movement plan worse than WindrushAnalysis: what\u2019s in new bid to remove backstop? 2.41pm BST I\u2019m back, and No 10 has responded to Donald Tusk\u2019s statement rejecting Boris Johnson\u2019s proposal for the backstop. A Downing Street spokesman said:We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}