No breakthrough for May after ‘constructive’ Brexit talks in Brussels

PM asks Juncker for changes to Irish backstop as pair agree to meet again in FebruaryTheresa May has told the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, she needed “legally binding changes” to the Irish backstop if MPs were to back her Brexit deal, during a high-stakes meeting in Brussels that yielded no obvious breakthrough.With only 37 days until the UK leaves the European Union, EU expectations were low when May arrived in Brussels. Shortly before meeting the prime minist