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Portrait of the week: Brexit approaches, Extinction Rebellion protests and Donald Trump tweets

12 October 2019

9:00 AM

12 October 2019

9:00 AM

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After a telephone conversation between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, a Downing Street spokesman said she had made clear that a withdrawal agreement with the EU was ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’; Mrs Merkel had insisted on Northern Ireland staying in the Customs Union, which the Democratic Unionist party called ‘beyond crazy’.

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