Merkel and Macron under pressure as May seeks new Brexit delay

Angela Merkel and Theresa May in Berlin in December.Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
The view from Berlin Angela Merkel is due to receive May on the steps of her office at midday for what her spokesman Steffen Seibert described as an attempt to seek a further extension of article 50. The two leaders are expected to hold discussions over a working lunch in a dining room in Merkel’s office suite on the seventh floor of the chancellery building. May’s whistlestop visit, squeeze