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12 October 2017

Theresa May needs to break our Brexit deadlock – but she can’t

It's tricky to work out how the current British government can get from here to a deal.

By Stephen Bush

What’s that coming over the hill? It’s unlikely to be what the British government so craves: sufficient progress on the first stage of EU-UK talks.

“There was nothing, zero, no progress,” is how one diplomat describes the last week of negotiations to the FT’s Alex Barker.

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