Theresa May is expected to tell British MPs later that a Brexit deal is 95 per cent agreed.
The Guardian reports that the British Prime Minister will say there’s been progress on some issues in negotiations with the EU.
But the Irish border remains the main sticking point in talks, and no agreement on the issue has been found yet.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Rabb said yesterday that Britian will only agree to the transition period being extended if the backstop is scraped.
The Clare Chair of the ICMSA says it’s crucial that Ireland continues to look at other export markets, even if the UK’s post-Brexit transition period is extended.
Martin McMahon feels it would be in our interest to have another year of tarriff-free trade with Britain but he says we need to be expanding our horizons too:
