EU Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier Has Effectively Ruled Out A New Brexit Deal Without The Backstop

He says there can be no flexibility on the issue

The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has effectively ruled out a new Brexit deal, without the backstop.

Removing the mechanism - designed to prevent a hard border - has been one of the British Prime Ministers key demands.

Sky's political correspondent Kate McCann has been reading Barnier's comments in more detail:

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