{"id":5637,"date":"2019-10-10T05:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2019-10-10T05:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:28:18","slug":"brexit-boris-johnson-and-leo-varadkar-set-for-further-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar set for further talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar will meet for talks later to discuss the UK&#8217;s Brexit proposals.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Downing Street said the meeting was to allow &#8220;detailed discussions&#8221; on the process of securing a deal.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr Johnson has said he remains &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about a deal.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting between the two leaders will take place in the north-west of England, with Mr Johnson still insisting the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal at the end of the month.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That is despite the so-called Benn Act &#8211; passed by MPs last month &#8211; demanding he request a delay to the Article 50 deadline from the EU until January 2020 if a deal has not been agreed before 19 October.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the PM was gearing up to bypass legal obstacles to a no-deal Brexit by sending one letter requesting an extension and, in the same instance, submitting a second memo telling European leaders he does not want one.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Asked on ITV&#8217;s Peston programme whether the idea of sending two letters to the EU was a possible loophole, Ms Leadsom replied: &#8220;Absolutely.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='share-to-whatsapp-wrapper'><div class='share-on-whsp'>Share on: <\/div><a data-text='Brexit: Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar set for further talks' data-link='https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/?p=5637' class='whatsapp-button whatsapp-share'>WhatsApp<\/a><div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar will meet for talks later to discuss the UK&#8217;s Brexit proposals.Downing Street said the meeting was to allow &#8220;detailed discussions&#8221; on the process of securing a deal.Mr Johnson has said he remains &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about a deal.The meeting between the two leaders will take place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[15477,15474,15476,15473,15478,15479,3623,15475,15480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}