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So, Theresa May got her chance to make a Brexit pitch to EU leaders last night and then they discussed it over dinner in her absence. Judging from the overnight reports, May’s EU counterparts seem keen to avoid a repeat of the Salzburg debacle and they have been avoiding saying anything too negative or critical about her offer. But it is clear that she did not have much to say to move the process forward. As Antonio Tajani, the president of the European parliament, said afterwards: “I was listening to Mrs May. It was the tone of someone who want to reach an agreement [but] there is no change in content.”

Here is the Guardian’s overnight splash with all the details.

Related: Theresa May signals willingness to extend transition period

We cannot find the money to fund our front line police properly. We cannot find the £2b for the vulnerable on UC, but we can mysteriously find billions to bung to the EU for the unnecessary extra year Clegg and Blair asked Barnier for to waylay Brexit??

This is serious.

.@andreajenkyns tells @Peston that any plan to extend the #Brexit transition is ridiculous and that if the PM can’t negotiate then we need to find someone else #Peston pic.twitter.com/LzfhasxsvF

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p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>If you can’t (or in the EU’s case won’t) resolve the backstop issue now because it’s an issue of principle than why will it take another 3 years to resolve it? Will it not be an issue of principle once we have coughed up billions more in UK taxpayers’ cash? #Article50 https://t.co/SMwhR3MNNb

I’m astonished to read this letter [the one from Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, to the Commons procedure committee, about the “meaningful vote”] because, leave aside the policy issues around this, this is about good faith. It’s about honesty, because one way of reading this is to suggest that the government is trying to renege on clear assurances that were given at the time both the House of Commons and the House of Lords approved the government’s approach.

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