Hunt downplays signs of Brexit progress as Poland offers support

Foreign secretary says Michel Barnier’s remarks do not show change to EU stance on UK planPoland’s nationalist government is seeking to persuade the EU to be more open to the UK’s Brexit plans as Jeremy Hunt said he had so far seen scant evidence of any hopeful movement from Brussels on the Chequers proposals.The British foreign secretary, meeting his EU counterparts in Vienna, downplayed any suggestion that recent comments from the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Ba