EU may offer post-Brexit trade flexibility to help May secure deal

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has urged MEPs to talk down the possibility of extending the two-year negotiating period.The EU is preparing to help Theresa May build a parliamentary majority for a Brexit deal by offering Downing Street a written commitment to think again about “frictionless trade” if the UK changes its red lines after it leaves the union.EU leaders want to throw the prime minister a lifeline in their long-awaited political declaration on a futu