Barnier welcomes Raab by stressing urgency of Irish border deadline

As EU negotiator meets Brexit secretary in Brussels, Raab calls for more ‘vim’ in talksThe EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has welcomed Dominic Raab to Brussels with a thinly veiled critique of Theresa May’s Chequers plan and a 13-week deadline in which to solve the problem of the Irish border.Appearing with Barnier for the first time in the Belgian capital, the new Brexit secretary, clutching a copy of the UK’s recently published Brexit white paper, called f