U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government sounded a more optimistic note on the likelihood of reaching a Brexit deal, even as he prepares to take a hard-line approach in his first negotiations with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday.
The premier wrote in a column in Monday’s Daily Telegraph that he believes he can still strike a deal with the EU -- which the government is working “flat out” to achieve -- and accused his opponents in Parliament of trying to “crush Brexit.”