'A mess': Irish border issue continues to hamper Brexit progress

Theresa May hopes Donald Tusk can call a Brexit summit later this month.There had never been any real doubt in Brussels that the EU’s proposal in February to, in effect, keep Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union after Brexit would “have a crash landing”.In the days ahead of the publication of the legal text, the EU’s deputy chief negotiator, Sabine Weyand, had given indications to Olly Robbins, Downing Street’s senior Brexit adviser, of the bloc&r