Brexit talks: bad-tempered breakdown in sight as deadline looms | Dan Roberts

Just as the chancellor predicted on Wednesday, all sides now warning of need to imagine the worst as fifth round endsIt may have felt like Groundhog Day, but the fifth round of the increasingly tetchy Brexit talks on Thursday provided a glimpse into the future, and it wasn’t pretty.The pound dropped abruptly when Michel Barnier announced that all they had achieved was a “very disturbing state of deadlock” over money. With it should go the hopes of millions of citizens stranded