Brexit Talks Continue But Johnson and EU Warn of Big Differences
- Call came ahead of potentially decisive week of negotiations
- Two sides gave downbeat assessment of talks in past few days
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used a phone call on Saturday to plot the way forward toward a Brexit deal, but said that large differences still need to be bridged if there is to be an agreement.
The prime minister and the European Union’s chief official will now allow their negotiators --David Frost for the U.K. and Michel Barnier for the EU -- to resume trade talks in London, in what a U.K. spokesman described as a redoubling of efforts. They had been paused since Thursday to enable the two sides to take stock.